Francis Thompson quotes
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“An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.”
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“All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.”
-- Francis ThompsonSource : Francis Thompson (1910). “Selected poems”
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“A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.”
-- Francis ThompsonSource : Francis Thompson (1913*). “Prose [works].”
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“Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.”
-- Francis ThompsonSource : 'Daisy' (1913)
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“Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.”
-- Francis ThompsonSource : "A Renegade Poet and Other Essays" by Francis Thompson, Boston: The Ball Publishing Co., (p. 47), 1910.
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“Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.”
-- Francis ThompsonSource : 'The Kingdom of God' (1913)
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“Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.”
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“The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.”
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“The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.”
-- Francis ThompsonSource : 'Daisy' (1913)
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“Little Jesus, was Thou shy Once, and just so small as I? And what did it feel like to be Out of Heaven, and just like me?”
-- Francis ThompsonSource : Francis Thompson (1913). “Complete Poetical Works”
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“Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet, And all things are made young with your desires.”
-- Francis ThompsonSource : James M. Byrne, Francis Thompson (2001). “God: thoughts in an age of uncertainty”, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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“There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.”
-- Francis ThompsonSource : 'A Judgement in Heaven' (1913) epilogue
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“Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.”
-- Francis ThompsonSource : 'To a Snowflake' (1913)
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“The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.”
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“Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word, And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird.”
-- Francis ThompsonSource : Francis Thompson (2002). “Poems of Francis Thompson”, p.16, A&C Black
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“So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture, Of its own essence parcel pure.-- From grave simplicities a dress, And reticent demureness, And love encinctured with reserve; Which the woven vesture would subserve. For outward robes in their ostents Should show the soul's habiliments. Therefore I say,--Thou'rt fair even so, But better Fair I use to know.”
-- Francis ThompsonSource : Francis Thompson (2002). “Poems of Francis Thompson”, p.14, A&C Black
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“The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,Moves all the labouring surges of the world.”
-- Francis ThompsonSource : Francis Thompson (2002). “Poems of Francis Thompson”, p.77, A&C Black
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“In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.”
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“Babies breathe a lot more rapidly than adults do, and what's more, they're also growing quickly and so they're absorbing lots more into the body and they're more fragile in terms of development and so on.”
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“Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola.”
-- Francis ThompsonSource : Francis Thompson (2002). “Poems of Francis Thompson”, p.51, A&C Black
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“But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities unthawed and chill.”
-- Francis ThompsonSource : Francis Thompson (2002). “Poems of Francis Thompson”, p.13, A&C Black
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