John Vance Cheney quotes
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“The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.”
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“If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown. Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee?”
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“The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives; Over and over To the lowly clover He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too). He will be lisping and pledging to you.”
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“Holding occasion by the hand, Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower, Waiving what none can understand, I make mine hour.”
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“I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.”
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“A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose.”
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“The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.”
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“The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. [So when you are crying remember also to anticipate and look for the rainbow.]”
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“The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest.”
-- John Vance CheneySource : Bliss Carman, John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard (1904). “The World's Best Poetry ...”
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“I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach When all is summer there.”
-- John Vance CheneySource : John Vance Cheney (1922). “My Hearthside: Poems Written to Sally”
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“No command of art, No toil, can help you hear; Earth's minstrelsy falls clear But on the listening heart.”
-- John Vance Cheney
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