“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” — A. A. Milne | V2Melody

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”

Encouraging patience and trust in the course of life · Prose, Winnie-the-Pooh

About A. A. Milne

A. A. Milne

18 January 1882–31 January 1956

Alan Alexander Milne was born in Kilburn, London, on 18 January 1882, into a household where education, discipline, and intellectual curiosity were daily realities. He was the youngest of three sons of John Vine Milne and Sarah Marie Heginbotham Milne. His father was the headmaster of Henley House School, a small…

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Poems by A. A. Milne

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“War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.”

His pacifist conviction that war is a human choice, not an inevitability · Peace with Honour, 1934

Hope
War

“A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.”

Emphasising friendship as a source of daily nourishment and joy · Prose, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them.”

On the discipline required to summon inspiration rather than wait for it · Essay, on the craft of writing

Art