Ralph Hodgson Quotes

Ralph Hodgson shares poetic musings on character and happiness that feel like gentle riddles for the reflective reader.

15 quotes

  1. Time, you old gipsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day?

  2. 'Twould ring the bells of Heaven The wildest peal for years, If Parson lost his senses And people came to theirs, And he and they together Knelt down with angry prayers For tamed and shabby tigers And dancing dogs and bears, And wretched, blind, pit ponies, And little hunted hares.

  3. Reason has moons, but moons not hers Lie mirror'd on her sea, Confounding her astronomers, But, O! delighting me.

  4. Hodgson, a man of steadfast integrity and strong personality, possessed true distinction.

  5. God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas.

  6. Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

  7. Without a wish, without a will, I stood upon that silent hill And stared into the sky until My eyes were blind with stars and still I stared into the sky.

  8. I did not pray Him to lay bare The mystery to me, Enough the rose was Heaven to smell, And His own face to see.

  9. Some things have to be believed to be seen.

  10. The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.

  11. Did anyone ever have a boring dream?

  12. I saw with open eyes, Singing birds sweet, Sold in the shops, For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of, Stupidity Street.

  13. I saw with open eyes/ Singing birds sweet/ Sold in the shops/ For the people to eat,/ Sold in the shops of/ Stupidity Street.// I saw in a vision/ The worm in the wheat,/ And in the shops nothing/ For people to eat;/ Nothing for sale in/ Stupidity Street.

  14. “Some things have to be believed in to be seen.”

  15. “Somethings have to be believed to be seen.”