Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.”
-- Algernon Charles SwinburneSource : Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics
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“Today will die tomorrow.”
-- Algernon Charles SwinburneSource : Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.250, Delphi Classics
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“Blossom by blossom the spring begins.”
-- Algernon Charles SwinburneSource : Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)
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“Change lays her hand not upon the truth.”
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“I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and no other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me.”
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“Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.”
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“The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.”
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“A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.”
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“No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done.”
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“White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.”
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“Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.”
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“The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no loyalty in him, with no sense of love or reverence or devotion due to something outside and above his poor daily life, with its pains and pleasures, profits and losses, is as evil a case as man can be.”
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“Wan February with weeping cheer, Whose cold hand guides the youngling year Down misty roads of mire and rime, Before thy pale and fitful face The shrill wind shifts the clouds apace Through skies the morning scarce may climb. Thine eyes are thick with heavy tears, But lit with hopes that light the year's.”
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“Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.”
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“Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire...”
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“Fear that makes faith may break faith.”
-- Algernon Charles SwinburneSource : Algernon Charles Swinburne (1874). “Bothwell: A Tragedy”, p.52
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“There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.”
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“To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office.”
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“Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding.”
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“In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.”
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“For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.”
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“Time stoops to no man's lure.”
-- Algernon Charles SwinburneSource : Algernon Charles Swinburne (1866). “Laus Veneris, and other poems and ballads. [Orig. publ. as Poems and ballads]. Author's ed”, p.192
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“The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.”
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“A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]”
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“When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other.”
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“Cold autumn, wan with wrath of wind and rain, Saw pass a soul sweet as the sovereign tune That death smote silent when he smote again.”
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“The beast faith lives on its own dung.”
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“As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.”
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“I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.”
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“In hawthorn-time the heart grows light.”
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