Robert Bridges quotes

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation. (Robert Bridges)
I know that if odour were visible as colour is, I'd see the summer garden aureoled in rainbow clouds. View quote
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So sweet love seemed that April morn, When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change. View quote
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Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly I well know whither, And rest I well know where. View quote
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I live on hope and that I think do all Who come into this world. View quote
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When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master. View quote
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My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night. View quote
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Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation.. it is accepted as easily as it was created. View quote
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The name of happiness is but a wider term for the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life, attendant on all function, and not to be deny'd to th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of nature spiritual is by definition unnatural. View quote
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When Death to either shall come- I pray it be first to me. View quote
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I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them. (Robert Bridges)
For beauty being the best of all we know Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims Of nature. View quote
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Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for thee any better melody in the April woods at dawn than what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awake o'night in his comfortless attic, might perchance be aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch? View quote
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To-morrow it seem Like the empty words of a dream Remembered on waking. View quote
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Man's Reason is in such deep insolvency to sense, that tho' she guide his highest flight heav'nward, and teach him dignity morals manners and human comfort, she can delicatly and dangerously bedizen the rioting joys that fringe the sad pathways of Hell. View quote
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Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru' the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man. View quote
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When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town. View quote
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Good melody is never out of fashion. View quote
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Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty grow. View quote
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But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be. View quote
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I have loved flowers that fade, Within whose magic tents Rich hues have marriage made With sweet unmemoried scents: A honeymoon delight, A joy of love at sight, That ages in an hour My song be like a flower! (Robert Bridges)
Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding, Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West, That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding, Whither away, fair rover, and what thy quest? View quote
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Repudiation of pleasur is a reason'd folly of imperfection. Ther is no motiv can rebate or decompose the intrinsic joy of activ life, whereon all function whatsoever in man is based. View quote
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They gathered up the crystal manna to freeze Their tongues with tasting, their hands with snowballing; Or rioted in a drift, plunging up to the knees. View quote
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And Reason kens he herits in A haunted house. Tenants unknown Assert their squalid lease of sin With earlier title than his own. View quote
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Robert Bridges

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Occupation: English Poet
Born: October 23, 1844
Died: April 21, 1930
Quotes count: 43
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