Alfred Austin Quotes

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• The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

  Alfred Austin

  Heart, Garden, Hands

  "Growing with the Seasons: A Sharing of Insights Into the Creative Aspects of Organic Gardening". Book by Frank Giannangelo and Vicky Giannangelo, July 1, 2008.

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• We come from the earth, we return to the earth,
  and in between we garden.

  Alfred Austin

  Garden, Earth, Return

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• Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

  Alfred Austin

  Wise, Wisdom, Thinking

  Alfred Austin (1887). “Prince Lucifer”

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• The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. Share the botanical bliss of gardeners through the ages, who have cultivated philosophies to apply to their own - and our own - lives: Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

  Alfred Austin

  Philosophy, Heart, Garden

  "Growing with the Seasons: A Sharing of Insights Into the Creative Aspects". Book by Frank Giannangelo and Vicky Giannangelo, p. 115, 2008.

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• Tears are summer showers to the soul.

  Alfred Austin

  Summer, Soul, Tears

  "Savonarola: A Tragedy".

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• There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

  Alfred Austin

  Educational, Humility, Garden

  Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”

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• A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography.

  Alfred Austin

  Character, Garden, Taste

  Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”

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• Is life worth living?
  Yes, so long as there is wrong to right.
  So long as faith with freedom reigns and loyal hope survives,
  And gracious charity remains to leaven lowly lives;
  While there is only one untrodden tract for intellect or will,
  And men are free to think and act,
  Life is worth living still.

  Alfred Austin

  Life, Men, Thinking

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• Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

  Alfred Austin

  Mistake, Garden, Society

  Alfred Austin (1894). “The Garden that I Love”

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• Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

  Alfred Austin

  Horse, Food, Journey

  "Fictional character: Alex Blake". "Criminal Minds". Season 8, Episode 5: "The Good Earth", www.imdb.com. October 31, 2012.

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• There is no gardening without humility

  Alfred Austin

  Humility, Gardening

  Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”

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• No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.

  Alfred Austin

  Garden, Self Made, Made It

  Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”

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• Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.

  Alfred Austin

  Life, Woods, Cry

  Alfred Austin, “A Woman’s Apology”

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• He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.

  Alfred Austin

  Life, Feels, Stills

  Alfred Austin, “Is Life Worth LIVIng?”

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• Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.

  Alfred Austin

  Air, Poetry, Tree

  Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

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• My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.

  Alfred Austin

  Dream, Rose, Sound

  Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

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• No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

  Alfred Austin

  Quality, May, Obscure

  "The Bridling of Pegasus: Prose Papers on Poetry". Book by Alfred Austin, 1910.

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• Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the poor trudge refreshment scant, Age after age, pants on to find A melting mirage of the mind.

  Alfred Austin

  Past, Mind, Age

  Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

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• Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here.

  Alfred Austin

  Song, Spring, Years

  Alfred Austin, “Is Life Worth LIVIng?”

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• Where has thou been all the dumb winter days When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers, Neither life, nor love, nor frolic, Only expanse melancholic, With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?

  Alfred Austin

  Flower, Winter, Dumb

  Alfred Austin (1896). “Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin”

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• Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the foam-fringe, till with stronger and further reach Than they dreamed of, a billow comes bursting, how they turn and scamper and screech!

  Alfred Austin

  Inspirational, Sports, Beach

  Alfred Austin, “A Woman’s Apology”

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• Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

  Alfred Austin

  Real, Imagination, Fancy

  "The Bridling of Pegasus: Prose Papers on Poetry". Book by Alfred Austin, 1910.

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• So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness.

  Alfred Austin

  Winter, Rose, Snow

  Alfred Austin, “My Winter Rose”

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• In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.

  Alfred Austin

  Song, Scent, Notes

  Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

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• Pale January lay
  In its cradle day by day
  Dead or living, hard to say.

  Alfred Austin

  January, Cradle, Pale

  Alfred Austin (1896). “Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin”

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