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.

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!’