Eleanor Farjeon Quotes

• And he loved her, both for her fault and her redemption of it, more than he had ever thought that he could love her; for he had believed that in their kiss love had reached its uttermost. But love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Love, Life, Crush

  "Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard".

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• It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Nature, Cat, Animal

  Eleanor Farjeon (1963). “Faithful Jenny Dove: And Other Illusions”

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• The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Years, Childhood, Fatherhood

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• Morning has broken
  Like the first morning.
  Blackbird has spoken
  Like the first bird.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Song, Morning, Broken

  "Morning Has Broken" (hymn) (1931)

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• All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Life, Love Life, Ill

  Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”

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• We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Death, Sight, Dies

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• It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Laughter, Evil, Laughing

  Eleanor Farjeon (1920). “Gypsy and Ginger”

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• It seems to me there are no rules, only instances; but perhaps that is because I learned no rules, and am only an instance myself.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Instance, Seems

  Eleanor Farjeon (1960). “A nursery in the nineties”

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• In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Life, Payment, Penalties

  Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”

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• I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty and wisdom for my sake, I will give them all to you again; and yet you must also give them to me, for they are things in which without you I am wanting. But together we can make them.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Life, Fighting, Together We Can

  Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”

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• Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Sleep, Cat, Piano

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• Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Life, Ruins, Vines

  "Pan-Worship: And Other Poems (Time And Love)". Book by Eleanor Farjeon, 1908.

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• No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Life, Morning, World

  Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”

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• Of troubles know I none, Of pleasures know I many - I rove beneath the sun, Without a single penny.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Pennies, Trouble, Pleasure

  "Pan-Worship: And Other Poems (Vagrant Songs, II)". Book by Eleanor Farjeon, 1908.

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• Women are so strangely constructed that they have in them darkness as well as light, though it be but a little curtain hung across the sun. And love is the hand that takes the curtain down, a stronger hand than fear, which hung it up. For all the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Life, Love Is, Light

  Eleanor Farjeon (2013). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”, p.181, Random House

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• He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Love, Crush, Kissing

  Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”

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• On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Dumb, Ghost, Speak

  Eleanor Farjeon (2013). “The New Book of Days”, p.372, Random House

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• Praise with elation
  Praise every morning
  Spring's re-creation
  Of the First Day!

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Morning, Spring, Firsts

  Eleanor Farjeon (2013). “The New Book of Days”, p.91, Random House

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• Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Children, Roots, Evil

  Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”

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• Ecstasy cannot be constant, or it would kill.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Joy, Ecstasy, Constant

  Eleanor Farjeon, Farjeon family (1935). “A Nursery in the Nineties”

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• There's Carol like a rolling car, And Martin like a flying bird, And Adam like the Lord's First Word, And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, And Peter like a piper's tune, And Alan like the flowing on Of water. And there's John, like John.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Moon, Car, Water

  1958 Then There Were Three,'Boys' Names'.

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• Old sundial, you stand here for Time: For Love, the vine that round your base, Its tendrils twines, and dares to climb, And lay one flower-capped spray in grace, Without the asking on your cold, Unsmiling and unfrowning face.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Life, Flower, Grace

  "Pan-Worship: And Other Poems (Time And Love)". Book by Eleanor Farjeon, 1908.

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• In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleet, They barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Feet, People, Stones

  "Pan-Worship: And Other Poems (Fleet Street)". Book by Eleanor Farjeon, 1908.

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• He loved her, both for her fault and her redemption of it, more than he had ever thought that he could love her; for he had believed that in their kiss love had reached its uttermost. But love has no uttermost, as the starshave no number and the sea no rest.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Life, Kissing, Sea

  Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”

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• Dropt tears have hastened your decay, And brought you one step nigher death; And you have heard, unthrilled, unmoved, The music of Love's golden breath, And seen the light in eyes that loved. You think you hold the core and kernel, Of all the world beneath your crust, Old dial? But when you lie in dust, This vine will bloom, strong, green, and proved. Love is eternal.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Life, Strong, Lying

  "Pan-Worship: And Other Poems (Time And Love)". Book by Eleanor Farjeon, 1908.

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