18 Thomas Sturge Moore Quotes

Thomas Sturge Moore quotes

1. Then, cleaving the grass, gazelles appear (The gentler dolphins of kindlier waves) With sensitive heads alert of ear; Frail crowds that a delicate hearing saves.

2. For milkmaids and queens and gipsy-princesses Dream and kiss blindfold or starve upon guesses.

3. Break free, my soul, good manners are thy tomb!

4. 'Shells with lip, or tooth, or bleeding gum, Tell-tale shells, and shells that whisper 'Come', Shells that stammer, blush, and yet are dumb - ' 'O let me hear!'

5. In my opinion Mr. Moore is a greater poet than Mr. Yeats. He has lived obscurely, and has not displayed Mr. Yeats's talent for self-dramatization; for these reasons and others he has never become a public figure or a popular writer.

6. A sheep in sheep's clothing.

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1. This is the right time, and this is the right thing.

2. All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

3. An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagination where we find value, love, and union with the world around us. As mystics of many religions have taught, that sense of rapturous union can give a sensation of fulfillment that makes life purposeful and vibrant.

4. When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.

5. We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

6. A soulmate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace.

7. A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity!

8. The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.

9. And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

10. Pythagoras asks that we not let a friend go lightly, for whatever reason. Instead, we should stay with a friend as long as we can, until we're compelled to abandon him completely against our will. It's a serious thing to toss away money, but to cast aside a person is even more serious. Nothing in human life is more rarely found, nothing more dearly possessed. No loss is more chilling or more dangerous than that of a friend.

11. And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

12. With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!