Harold Monro quotes
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“O gentle vision in the dawn: My spirit over faint cool water glides, Child of the day, To thee; And thou art drawn By kindred impulse over silver tides The dreamy way To me.”
-- Harold MonroSource : Harold Monro, “Child Of Dawn”
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“When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there.”
-- Harold MonroSource : Children of Love (1914) "Milk for the Cat"
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“What I saw was just one eye In the dawn as I was going: A bird can carry all the sky In that little button glowing. Never in my life I went So deep into the firmament.”
-- Harold MonroSource : Harold Monro, “The Bird At Dawn”
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“The white saucer like some full moon descends / At last from the clouds of the table above.”
-- Harold MonroSource : 1914 'Milk for the Cat'.
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“Cupid has offered his arrows for Jesus to try;He has offered his bow for the game.But Jesus went weeping away, and left him there wondering why.”
-- Harold MonroSource : HAROLD MONRO (1935). “TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY”
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“The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in poetry, if anything, repose from material and nervous anxiety; an apt or chiselled phrase strokes the appetites and tickles the imagination. The more general public merely enjoys its platitudes and truisms jerked on to the understanding in line and rhyme; truth put into metre sounds overwhelmingly true.”
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“To the acquisition of the rare quality of politeness, so much of the enlightened understanding is necessary that I cannot but consider every book in every science, which tends to make us wiser, and of course better men, as a treatise on a more enlarged system of politeness.”
-- Harold Monro
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