MY SELECTED QUOTES ----PART 1
Dear Readers, the quotes that follow form part of my collection
over the years. By and large, their authors are known but there are also those whose authors could not be traced ; yet I have included them in my selection being
impressed by their everlasting wisdom.
- The world is too much with us ; late or soon,
getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; little we see in Nature
that is ours; we have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
- A lily of a day is fairer far in May, although it fall and die that night ---It was the
plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see; and
in short measures life may perfect be. ----English poet and dramatist Ben
Jonson.
- God doth not need either man’s work or His own
gifts: who best bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best : His state is
kingly; thousands at His bidding speed and post o’er land and ocean
without rest: they also serve who only stand and wait. ----English poet
John Milton.
- Remember, no men are strange, no countries
foreign, beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes like ours; the land
our brothers walk upon is earth like this, in which we shall lie. They,
too, aware of sun and air and water, are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s
long winter starv’d. Their hands are ours, and in their lines we read a
labour not different from our own. ------Japanese professor of English literature
James Kirkup.
- What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to
stand stare?—No time to stand beneath the boughs and stare as long as
sheep and cows: no time to see in broad daylight, streams full of stars,
like skies at night: no time to turn at Beauty’s glance, and watch her
feet , how they can dance….A poor life this, if full of care, we have no
time to stand and stare, ----Welsh poet
William Henry Davies who spent most of his time in U.K. and U.S.A.
G.R.Kanwal
24 July 2024
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