Mary Elizabeth Coleridge quotes
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“The fruits of the tree of Knowledge are various; he must be strong indeed who can digest all of them.”
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“We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.”
-- Mary Elizabeth ColeridgeSource : Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1954). “Collected Poems”
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“Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care, To men He was a stranger, The safety of the world was lying there, And the world's danger.”
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“Breathe slumbrous music round me, sweet and slow,To honied phrases set!Into the land of dreams I long to go.Bid me forget!”
-- Mary Elizabeth ColeridgeSource : Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1900). “Fancy's Following”
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“Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?-Moths that a garment fret.The world is turned memorial, crying, "ThouShalt not forget!”
-- Mary Elizabeth ColeridgeSource : Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1900). “Fancy's Following”
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“Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,Thou little heart?”
-- Mary Elizabeth ColeridgeSource : Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1954). “Collected Poems”
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“How often one talks not to hear what the other person has got to say, but to hear what one has got to say oneself!”
-- Mary Elizabeth ColeridgeSource : Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1954). “Collected Poems”
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“Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.”
-- Mary Elizabeth ColeridgeSource : Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1954). “Collected Poems”
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Source : "Powell backs post-Djindjic reforms", www.cnn.com. April 2, 2003.
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Source : Adelaide Crapsey, “November Night”
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“The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?”
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