Dante Gabriel Rossetti Quotes

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• It is beautiful, the world, and life itself. I am glad I have lived.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Beautiful, World, World And Life

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• Beauty without the beloved is a like a sword through the heart.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Heart, Beloved

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• Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

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  Love, Lasts, Eternity

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1902). “The House of Life: A Sonnet-sequence”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

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• The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Thankful, Atheist, Worst Moments

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• Places that are empty of you are empty of life.

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  Empty

  Paul Spencer-Longhurst, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (2000). “The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s”, Scala Books

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• I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. ... You have been mine before, How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall - I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before? And shall not thus time's eddying flight Still with our lives our love restore In death's despite, And day and night yield one delight once more

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  Sweet, Fall, Night

  'Sudden Light'

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• Your eyes smile peace.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Eye

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Clive Wilmer (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.26, Routledge

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• Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Farewell, Opportunity, Names

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Sonnet XCVII: A Superscription”

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• Beauty like hers is genius.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Genius

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1902). “The House of Life: A Sonnet-sequence”, p.10, Library of Alexandria

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• You have been mine before - How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar, your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, - I knew it all of yore.

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  Soulmate, Fall, Long Ago

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Clive Wilmer (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.91, Routledge

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• The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness!

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  Joy, Triumph, Delight

  Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery (1973). “Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painter and poet”

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• Gather a shell from the strewn beach
  And listen at its lips: they sigh
  The same desire and mystery,
  The echo of the whole sea's speech.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Beach, Echoes, Sea

  "The Sea-Limits". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly
  Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Garden, Sky, Blue

  'The House of Life' (1881) pt. 1 'Silent Noon'

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• The sea hath no king but God alone.

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  Beach, Kings, Ocean

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti (2014). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.329, Delphi Classics

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• Love, which is quickly kindled in the gentle heart, seized this man for the fair form that was taken from me, the manner still hurts me. Love which absolves no beloved one from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as thou seest, it does not leave me yet

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  Hurt, Taken, Heart

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• Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Sometimes, All Things, Seems

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1902). “The House of Life: A Sonnet-sequence”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• If God in his wisdom have brought closeThe day when I must die,That day by water or fire or airMy feet shall fall in the destined snareWherever my road may lie.

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  Lying, Fall, Fire

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “The King's Tragedy James I. Of Scots.—20th February 1437”

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• Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Glasses, Silence, Hours

  'The House of Life' (1881) pt. 1 'Silent Noon'

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• So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns
  No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd
  With the dead boughs that winter still must bind,
  And whom today the Spring no more concerns.
  Behold, this crocus is a withering flame;
  This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part
  To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art.
  Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them,
  Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem
  The white cup shrivels round the golden heart.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Art, Spring, Flower

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frank Laurence Lucas (1933). “Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Anthology”, p.169, CUP Archive

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• Sudden Light I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the light around the shore.

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  Sweet, Light, Doors

  'Sudden Light'

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• I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Pride, Youth, Poet

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Sonnets LXXIV: LXXV:LXXVI: Old And New Art”

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• Her hair that lay along her back
  Was yellow like ripe corn.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Hair, Yellow, Blonde

  'The Blessed Damozel' st. 2

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• And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns awayAll shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Song, Night, Light

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1902). “The House of Life: A Sonnet-sequence”, p.12, Library of Alexandria

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• Tell me now in what hidden way isLady Flora the lovely Roman?Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais,Neither of them the fairer woman?Where is Echo, beheld of no man,Only heard on river and mere-She whose beauty was more than human?-But where are the snows of yester-year?

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  Men, Echoes, Years

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Clive Wilmer (2002). “Selected Poems and Translations”, p.144, Psychology Press

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• Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: So this winged hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.

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  Song, Heart, Blue

  'The House of Life' (1881) pt. 1 'Silent Noon'

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