Coventry Patmore Quotes - Page 2

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• Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

  Coventry Patmore

  Writing, Common, Century

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• Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

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  Wise, Adversity, Evil

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.34, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The ardour chills us which we do not share.

  Coventry Patmore

  Chill, Share

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• I drew my bride, beneath the moon,Across my threshold; happy hour!But, ah, the walk that afternoonWe saw the water-flags in flower!

  Coventry Patmore

  Flower, Moon, Water

  'The Spirit's Epochs' in 'The Angel in the House' (1854-62) bk. 1, canto 8, prelude 3 (1904 ed.)

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• Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

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  Siege, Youth, Courtesy

  Coventry Patmore (1853). “Tamerton Church-tower: And Other Poems”, p.85

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• A moment's fruition of a true felicity is enough and eternity not too much.

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  Fruition, Too Much, Moments

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance: a sphere in which the soul says: 'Shall I, a gnat which dances in Thy ray, Dare to be reverent?'

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  Laughter, Gnats, Soul

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.

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  Wings, Beats, Midges

  Coventry Patmore (1906). “Poems: The unknown eros, Amelia, etc”

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• All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.

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  Love, Sunshine, Men

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• Life is not life at all without delight.

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  Delight, Life Is, Coventry

  Coventry Patmore (1906). “Poems: The unknown eros, Amelia, etc”

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• Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances.

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  Love, Hatred, May

  Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1950). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”

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• Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.

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  Art, Lines, Knowledge Of God

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.12, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Ah, wasteful woman, she who may
  On her sweet self set her own price,
  Knowing man cannot choose but pay,
  How has she cheapened paradise;
  How given for nought her priceless gift,
  How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine,
  Which, spent with due respective thrift,
  Had made brutes men and men divine.

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  Sweet, Wine, Men

  Coventry Patmore (1906). “Poems: The angel in the house. The victories of love”

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• None thrives for long upon the happiest dream.

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  Dream, Long, Thrive

  Coventry Patmore (1906). “Poems: The unknown eros, Amelia, etc”

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• For want of me the world's course will not fail;When all its work is done the lie shall rot;The truth is great and shall prevailWhen none cares whether it prevail or not.

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  Lying, Care, Want

  Coventry Patmore (1906). “Poems: The unknown eros, Amelia, etc”

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• The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight.

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  Dream, Sweet, Sunshine

  Coventry Patmore, “The Unknown Eros. Book I.”

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• All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.

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  Self, Reason, Ends

  "The Rod, the Root, and the Flower". Book by Coventry Patmore, 1895.

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• How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life!

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  Music, Kissing, Light

  Coventry Patmore (1863). “The betrothal. The espousals”, p.301

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