Andrew Marvell quotes - page 2

Andrew Marvell was an English metaphysical poet and politician, celebrated for his wit and complex imagery. His poetry bridges the worlds of political satire and lyrical meditation. He is remembered as one of the most influential poets of the seventeenth century. Here are 38 of his quotes:

She with her eyes my heart does bind,
She with her voice might captivate my mind. (Andrew Marvell)

How should I avoid to be her slave, Whose subtle art invisibly can wreath My fetters of the very air I breath?

Andrew Marvell

I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires and more slow.

Andrew Marvell

No creature loves an empty space; Their bodies measure out their place.

Andrew Marvell

But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed.

Andrew Marvell

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

Andrew Marvell

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

Andrew Marvell

While thus he threw his Elbow round, Depopulating all the Ground, And, with his whistling Sythe, does cut Each stroke between the Earth and Root, The edged Stele by careless chance Did into his own Ankle glance; And there among the Grass fell down, by his own Sythe, the Mower mown.

Andrew Marvell

But at my back I always hear Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

Andrew Marvell

Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

Andrew Marvell

The mind, that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find;
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other worlds, and other seas;
Annihilating all that's made
To a green thought in a green shade. (Andrew Marvell)

Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.

Andrew Marvell

Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day.

Andrew Marvell

Previous
1
2 (Current)
Next

Andrew Marvell

Occupation: English Poet
Born: March 31, 1621
Died: August 16, 1678
Quotes count: 38
Wikipedia: Andrew Marvell

Related authors

John Donne 138

English Poet

George Herbert 285

English Poet

Henry Vaughan 20

Welsh Author

Robert Herrick (poet) 50

English Poet

John Milton 213

English Poet

Thomas Traherne 27

British Clergyman

Ben Jonson 146

English Playwright

John Dryden 316

English Poet

Richard Lovelace 17

English Writer

William Shakespeare 1879

English Playwright