Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore Quotes

No second Johannesburg is needed upon the earth. One is enough.

Some dish more sharply spiced than this Milk-soup men call domestic bliss.

He that but once too nearly hears The music of forfended spheres Is thenceforth lonely, and for all His days as one who treads the Wall Of China, and, on this hand, sees Cities and their civilities And, on the other, lions.

May I know by love and speak by silence.

Those who know God know that it is a quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.

No writer, sacred or profane, ever uses the words ‘he’ or ‘him’ of the soul. It is always ‘she’ or ‘her’; so universal is the intuitive knowledge that the soul, with regard to God who is her life, is feminine.

‘O say, Shall we no voluntary bars Set to our drift? I, Sister of the Stars, And Thou, my glorious, course-compelling Day!’

With all my will, but much against my heart, We two now part.

It was not like your great and gracious ways! Do you, that have naught other to lament, Never, my love, repent.

A woman is a foreign land.

‘I saw you take his kiss!’ ‘’Tis true.’ ‘O modesty!’ ‘’Twas strictly kept: He thought me asleep-at least, I knew He thought I thought he thought I slept.’

Love wakes men, once a lifetime each: They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach, They read with joy, then shut the book.