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Algernon Charles Swinburne Inspirational Quotes (105)

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The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.
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There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.
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There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.
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Where might is, the right is: Long purses make strong swords. Let weakness learn meekness: God save the House of Lords!
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I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end
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Change lays her hand not upon the truth.
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The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.
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His speech is a burning fire.
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I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and no other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me.
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God's own hand Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him The end of all our ends is, but with us Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous.
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For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.
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In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.
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Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding.
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White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.
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The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.
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Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.
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There is no God found stronger than death and death is a sleep.
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The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.
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Despair the twin-born of devotion.
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There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.
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Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.
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While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.
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My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.
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Marvellous mercies and infinite love.
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