Dante Gabriel Rossetti Quotes

Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.

Sleepless with cold commemorative eyes.

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell.

When vain desire at last and vain regret Go hand in hand to death, and all is vain, What shall assuage the unforgotten pain And teach the unforgetful to forget?

Give honour unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray.

I do not see them here; but after death God knows I know the faces I shall see, Each one a murdered self, with low last breath. ‘I am thyself,-what hast thou done to me?’ ‘And I-and I-thyself,’ (lo! each one saith,) ‘And thou thyself to all eternity!’