Rupert Brooke Quotes

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• If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

  Rupert Brooke

  Army, Thinking, Navy

  "The Soldier" l. 1 (1914)

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• There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.

  Rupert Brooke

  Writing, Three, World

  "The collected poems of Rupert Brooke: with a memoir".

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• A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

  Rupert Brooke

  Love, Relationship, Valentines Day

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• Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

  Rupert Brooke

  Summer, Nature, Laughter

  Cambridge Review 8 Dec. 1910, "Sonnet"

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• Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful.

  Rupert Brooke

  Beauty, Beautiful, Teenage

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• I have need to busy my heart with quietude.

  Rupert Brooke

  Heart, Needs, Busy

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.58, Delphi Classics

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• Youth is stranger than fiction.

  Rupert Brooke

  Fiction, Youth, Stranger

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• I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.

  Rupert Brooke

  Life, Good Friend, Conversation

  Timothy Rogers, Rupert Brooke (1971). “Rupert Brooke: A Reappraisal and Selection from His Writings”

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• If I should die, think only this of me:
  That there's some corner of a foreign field
  That is forever England. There shall be
  In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
  A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
  Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
  A body of England's, breathing English air,
  Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

  Rupert Brooke

  Flower, Book, Home

  'The Soldier' (1914)

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• I have a thousand images of you in an hour; all different and all coming back to the same. I think of you once against a sky line: and on the hill that Sunday morning. The light and the shadow and quietness and the rain and the wood. And you. Your arms and lips and hair and shoulders and voice - you.

  Rupert Brooke

  Morning, Rain, Sunday

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• Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.

  Rupert Brooke

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

  Rupert Brooke, James Strachey, Keith Hale (1998). “Friends and Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914”, p.283, Yale University Press

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• And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish

  Rupert Brooke

  Land, Heaven, Wish

  'Heaven' (1915)

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• Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

  Rupert Brooke

  Friendship, Death, Long

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

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• The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.

  Rupert Brooke

  Passion, Slave, Worst

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• But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.

  Rupert Brooke

  Wisdom, Wiser, Known

  1913 'There's Wisdom in Women'.

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• Hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

  Rupert Brooke

  Heart, Heaven

  'The Soldier' (1914)

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• One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in Liquidity.

  Rupert Brooke

  Eye, Water, Doubt

  'Heaven' (1915)

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• I thought when love for you died, I should die.
  It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.

  Rupert Brooke

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  Rupert Brooke (2010). “Collected Poems”, p.55, The Oleander Press

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• All the little emptiness of love!

  Rupert Brooke

  Love, Heart, Littles

  New Numbers no. 4 (1914) "Peace"

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• I shall desire and I shall find
  The best of my desires;
  The autumn road, the mellow wind
  That soothes the darkening shires.
  And laughter, and inn-fires.

  Rupert Brooke

  Laughter, Autumn, Fire

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.61, Delphi Classics

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• War knows no power. Safe shall be my going,
  Secretly armed against all death's endeavour;
  Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall;
  And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.

  Rupert Brooke

  War, Fall, Men

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

  Rupert Brooke

  Cat, Night, Cities

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.123, Delphi Classics

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• But the best I've known
  Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown
  About the winds of the world, and fades from brains
  Of living men, and dies.

  Rupert Brooke

  Death, Men, Wind

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.44, Delphi Classics

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• They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they ride the calm mid-heaven, as these, In wise majestic melancholy train, And watch the moon, and the still-raging seas, And men, coming and going on the earth.

  Rupert Brooke

  Wise, Grief, Moon

  Rupert Brooke (2007). “1914 & Other Poems”, p.37, Jeremy Mills Publishing

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• There's little comfort in the wise

  Rupert Brooke

  Wise, Comfort, Littles

  "Tiare Tahiti" l. 76 (1914). Ellipsis in original.

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