Quotes · Quote card
Quotation from Cædmon's Hymn by Cædmon
“his instruction in poetry was not at all from men, nor through the aid of any man, but it was through divine inspiration and as a gift from God that he received the power of song”
Cædmon's Hymn, Bede's account, paragraph 1, trans. Cosette Faust and Stith Thompson (1918)
Bede explains why no later English religious poet could equal Cædmon.
Citation: "his instruction in poetry was not at all from men, nor through the aid of any man, but it was through divine inspiration and as a gift from God that he received the power of song" — Cædmon, Cædmon's Hymn, Bede's account, paragraph 1, trans. Cosette Faust and Stith Thompson (1918). (id caedmons-hymn-q6)
Virtues: Humility
