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But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.

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Rupert Brooke
Age: 28 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 1
Died: 1915
Died: January 1
Poet
Rugby
Warwickshire
Rupert Chawner Brooke
Rupert Chaucer Brooke
Known
Women
Blowing
Wiser
Thoughts
Wisdom

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress and love has changed to kindliness.
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A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
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The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.
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Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.
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Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend!
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It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or better in my life than in those days in Belgium.
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War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour Safe though all safety's lost safe where men fall And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.
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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
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And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish
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There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.
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.. . . would I were In Grantchester, in Grantchester!
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But only agony, and that has ending And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.
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Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond But is there anything Beyond?
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Down the blue night the unending columns press In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow
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Just now the lilac is in bloom All before my little room.
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The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble and the rough male kiss of blankets.
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I shall desire and I shall find The best of my desires The autumn road, the mellow wind That soothes the darkening shires. And laughter, and inn-fires.
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Spend in pure converse our eternal day Think each in each, immediately wise Learn all we lacked before hear, know, and say What this tumultuous body now denies And feel, who have laid our groping hands away And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.
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