Eleanor Farjeon quotes
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“Love has no uttermost, as the starshave no number and the sea no rest.”
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“It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.”
-- Eleanor FarjeonSource : Eleanor Farjeon (1963). “Faithful Jenny Dove: And Other Illusions”
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“All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.”
-- Eleanor FarjeonSource : Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”
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“The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.”
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“Ecstasy cannot be constant, or it would kill.”
-- Eleanor FarjeonSource : Eleanor Farjeon, Farjeon family (1935). “A Nursery in the Nineties”
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“We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them ...”
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“It seems to me there are no rules, only instances; but perhaps that is because I learned no rules, and am only an instance myself.”
-- Eleanor FarjeonSource : Eleanor Farjeon (1960). “A nursery in the nineties”
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“I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty and wisdom for my sake, I will give them all to you again; and yet you must also give them to me, for they are things in which without you I am wanting. But together we can make them.”
-- Eleanor FarjeonSource : Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”
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“In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.”
-- Eleanor FarjeonSource : Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”
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“Old sundial, you stand here for Time: For Love, the vine that round your base Its tendrils twines, and dares to climb And lay one flower-capped spray in grace Without the asking on your cold Unsmiling and unfrowning face.”
-- Eleanor FarjeonSource : "Pan-Worship: And Other Poems (Time And Love)". Book by Eleanor Farjeon, 1908.
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“In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleetThey barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!”
-- Eleanor FarjeonSource : "Pan-Worship: And Other Poems (Fleet Street)". Book by Eleanor Farjeon, 1908.
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“Of troubles know I none,Of pleasures know I many -I rove beneath the sunWithout a single penny.”
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“There's Carol like a rolling car, And Martin like a flying bird, And Adam like the Lord's First Word, And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, And Peter like a piper's tune, And Alan like the flowing on Of water. And there's John, like John.”
-- Eleanor FarjeonSource : 1958 Then There Were Three,'Boys' Names'.
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“It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing.”
-- Eleanor FarjeonSource : "Of Human Bondage" by W. Somerset Maugham, (Ch. 68), 1915.
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“Upon your shattered ruins where This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.”
-- Eleanor FarjeonSource : "Pan-Worship: And Other Poems (Time And Love)". Book by Eleanor Farjeon, 1908.
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“Morning has broken Like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird.”
-- Eleanor FarjeonSource : "Morning Has Broken" (hymn) (1931)
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“On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb.”
-- Eleanor FarjeonSource : Eleanor Farjeon (2013). “The New Book of Days”, p.372, Random House
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“Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.”
-- Eleanor FarjeonSource : Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”
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“Dropt tears have hastened your decay And brought you one step nigher death; And you have heard, unthrilled, unmoved, The music of Love's golden breath And seen the light in eyes that loved. You think you hold the core and kernel Of all the world beneath your crust, Old dial? But when you lie in dust, This vine will bloom, strong, green, and proved. Love is eternal.”
-- Eleanor FarjeonSource : "Pan-Worship: And Other Poems (Time And Love)". Book by Eleanor Farjeon, 1908.
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“No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.”
-- Eleanor FarjeonSource : Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”
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“He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them.”
-- Eleanor FarjeonSource : Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”
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“Praise with elation Praise every morning Spring's re-creation Of the First Day!”
-- Eleanor FarjeonSource : Eleanor Farjeon (2013). “The New Book of Days”, p.91, Random House
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“Women are so strangely constructed that they have in them darkness as well as light, though it be but a little curtain hung across the sun. And love is the hand that takes the curtain down, a stronger hand than fear, which hung it up. For all the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.”
-- Eleanor FarjeonSource : Eleanor Farjeon (2013). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”, p.181, Random House
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“He loved her, both for her fault and her redemption of it, more than he had ever thought that he could love her; for he had believed that in their kiss love had reached its uttermost. But love has no uttermost, as the starshave no number and the sea no rest.”
-- Eleanor FarjeonSource : Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”
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“Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.”
-- Eleanor Farjeon
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