Robert Montgomery Quotes

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• The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.

  Robert Montgomery

  Love Is, People, Alive

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• Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,
  A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

  Robert Montgomery

  Home, Earth, Spots

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• Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

  Robert Montgomery

  Waiting, Listening, Turns

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• If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But never, never believe it.

  Robert Montgomery

  Believe, Mean, Lucky

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity.

  Robert Montgomery

  Death, Anchors, Sea

  Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.15

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• The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air. All the names will be erased from the billboards and the theatres and the piers and the magazines and the monuments. You live by myths of immortality, and your myths are not safe.

  Robert Montgomery

  Air, Names, Theatre

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• I'm not avoiding your question on my relationship to the fashion world or my work being shown in a fashion setting. My work's most often seen in the streets on billboards. I don't know if it being seen in a shop is any much different.

  Robert Montgomery

  Fashion, Different, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.

  Robert Montgomery

  Ocean, Iron, Feet

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• My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it

  Robert Montgomery

  Clever, Believe, Advice

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• There's nothing terrible in death;
  'Tis but to cast our robes away,
  And sleep at night, without a breath
  To break repose till dawn of day.

  Robert Montgomery

  Death, Sleep, Night

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• Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to them than to most contemporary art; they make the city a free space of diverse voices and we shouldn't get all cynical about them just because Banksy made some money. I collaborate sometimes with Krae, who is an old school east London graffiti writer.

  Robert Montgomery

  Art, School, East London

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Earth, air, and ocean, glorious three.

  Robert Montgomery

  Ocean, Air, Three

  Robert Montgomery (1832). “Messiah”

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• A moment is a mighty thing
  Beyond the soul's imagination;
  For in it, though we trace it not,
  How much there crowds of varied lot
  How much of life, life cannot see,
  Darts onward to eternity!

  Robert Montgomery

  Imagination, Soul, Crowds

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• The solitary monk who shook the world
  From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump
  Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips
  In peals of truth.

  Robert Montgomery

  Challenges, Religion, Lips

  Robert Montgomery (1854). “The Poetical Works of Robert Montgomery ...”, p.186

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• Oh! weep not that our beauty wears Beneath the wings of Time; That age o'erclouds the brow with cares That once was raised sublime... But mourn the inward wreck we feel As hoary years depart, And Time's effacing fingers steal Young feelings from the heart!

  Robert Montgomery

  Heart, Years, Wings

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• Beneath our feet a fairy pathway flows, The grass still glitters in the summer breeze, The dusky wood, and distant copse appear, And that lone stream, upon whose chequer’d face We mused, when noon-rays made the pebbles gleam, Is mirror’d to the mind: though all around Be rattling hoofs and roaring wheels, the eye Is wand’ring where the heart delights to dwell.

  Robert Montgomery

  Summer, Nature, Eye

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• O for a summer noon, when light and breeze Sport on the grass, like ripples o'er a lake Alive with freshness! when the full round Sun, With the Creator's smile upon his face, Walks like a prince of glory through the path Of Heaven! - Thou vast, and ever-glorious sky, Mantling the earth with thy majestic robe.

  Robert Montgomery

  Summer, Sports, Sky

  Robert Montgomery (1828). “A Universal Prayer, Death, A Vision of Heaven and A Vision of Hell”, p.129

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• Where beats a heart within a human breast,
  There be Thou present, and Thy power adored!
  And oh! since all one common race are doom'd
  To run, and one eternal goal to reach,
  May Thy prime attribute each bosom warm
  With tender sympathy and truth; may man
  To man be link'd to man in fellowship of soul,
  Till one vast chain of Love embrace the world!

  Robert Montgomery

  Running, Heart, Men

  "The Omnipresence of the Deity: And Other Poems".

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• How oft, - be witness, Guardian of our days!... The sky besprinkled o'er with rainbow hues, As if angelic wings had wanton'd there.

  Robert Montgomery

  Sky, Wings, Rainbow

  Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.87

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• The soul aspiring pants its source to mount,As streams meander level with their fount.

  Robert Montgomery

  Soul, Levels, Pants

  Robert Montgomery (1841). “The Omnipresence of the Deity: With Other Poems”, p.42

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• Oh! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind: When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away.

  Robert Montgomery

  Sweet, Prayer, Heart

  Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.144

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• How sublime Upon a time-blanch’d cliff to muse, and, while The eagle glories in a sea of air, To mingle with the scene around! - Survey The sun-warm heaven.

  Robert Montgomery

  Nature, Air, Eagles

  Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.142

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• Are there not hours of an immortal birth,— Bright visitations from a purer sphere, That cannot live in language? Is there not A mood of glory, when the mind attuned To heaven, can out of dreams create her worlds?—

  Robert Montgomery

  Dream, Self, Heaven

  Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.144

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• And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes Of youth, in manhood's more imposing cares.

  Robert Montgomery

  Heaven, Age, World

  Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.88

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• A universal beauty clothes the world, And one heart seems to beat for all mankind!

  Robert Montgomery

  Heart, Clothes, Brotherhood

  Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.147

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