Christina Rossetti quotes

Christina Rossetti was an English poet famous for her romantic, devotional, and children’s poems. Her works include classics like “Goblin Market” and “In the Bleak Midwinter.” She is remembered as one of the most important female poets of the Victorian era. Here are 37 of her quotes:

Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad. (Christina Rossetti)

Silence more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands.

Christina Rossetti

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.

Christina Rossetti

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Christina Rossetti

In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago.

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All earth's full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still.

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Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.

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And all winds go sighing For sweet things dying.

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My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.

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Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth,
Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth,
Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white,
Love is like a lovely rose, the world's delight.
Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth,
But the rose with all its thorns excels them both. (Christina Rossetti)

The birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

Christina Rossetti

One day in the country Is worth a month in town.

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Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land.

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Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.

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Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

Christina Rossetti

All things that pass Are wisdom's looking-glass.

Christina Rossetti

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

Christina Rossetti

Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep.

Christina Rossetti

Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.

Christina Rossetti

My heart is like a singing bird. (Christina Rossetti)

My heart is breaking for a little love.

Christina Rossetti

Sleeping at last, the trouble and tumult over, Sleeping at last, the struggle and horror past, Cold and white, out of sight of friend and of lover, Sleeping at last.

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When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget.

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Fair as the moon and joyful as the light; Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.

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Christina Rossetti

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Occupation: British Poet
Born: December 5, 1830
Died: December 29, 1894
Quotes count: 37
Wikipedia: Christina Rossetti

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