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October 14, 2012 by kevinstilley

Alfred Lord Tennyson – select quotes

Blow, bugle, blow; set the wild echoes flying.
Blow, bugle blow; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
~ from The Princess, 1850

I hold it true, whate’er befall
I feel it, when I sorrow most
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
– from “In Memoriam: A.H.H.” xxvii, st.4

Men at most differ as heaven and earth,
But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell.
~ in “Merlin and Vivien” line 812

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.

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April 19, 2009 by kevinstilley

Poetry – Select Quotes


In
The Miracle of Language Richard Lederer devotes two chapters to Poetry (three chapters if you count his chapter on The Legacy of T. S. Eliot). Sprinkled within these chapters are more than a few quotes about poetry. I have selected fifteen of my favorites to share with you here.

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