Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes

• Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Body, Twins, Spirit

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

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• Today will die tomorrow.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Today, Tomorrow, Dies

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.250, Delphi Classics

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• To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Greatness, Musician, Poet

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1875). “Essays and Studies”, p.59, Chatto & Windus

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• Change lays her hand not upon the truth.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Hands, Lays

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1866). “Poems and Ballads, [first Series].”, p.343

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• I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an
  end

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Long, Enough, Ends

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.410, Carcanet

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• I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Broken, Way, Remember

  'An Interlude'

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• Flor a flor comienza la primavera.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Spring, Flower Blossom, April And Spring

  Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

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• Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Fate, Rocks, Sea

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.59, Psychology Press

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• Love, as is told by the seers of old,
  Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold,
  Flutters and flies in sunlit skies,
  Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Amor, Vida, Corazón

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• The sweetest flowers in all the world- A baby's hands.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Baby, Flower, Hands

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1328, Delphi Classics

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• Time stoops to no man's lure.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Men, Stoops, Lure

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1866). “Laus Veneris, and other poems and ballads. [Orig. publ. as Poems and ballads]. Author's ed”, p.192

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• I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep Of what may come hereafter For men that sow to reap: I am weary of days and hours, Blown buds of barren flowers, Desires and dreams and powers And everything but sleep.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Dream, Laughter, Flower

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.249, Delphi Classics

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• Let weakness learn meekness.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Experience, Weakness, Meekness

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1275, Delphi Classics

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• There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Death, Sleep, Stronger

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1868). “Poems and Ballads”, p.84

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• The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no loyalty in him, with no sense of love or reverence or devotion due to something outside and above his poor daily life, with its pains and pleasures, profits and losses, is as evil a case as man can be.

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  Loyalty, Spiritual, Pain

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1926). “The Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne: Prose works”

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• Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Hope, Speak, Blind

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1418, Delphi Classics

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• For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Tiempo, Primavera, Flor

  Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

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• From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Motivational, Success, Thanksgiving

  "The Garden of Proserpine" l. 81 (1866)

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• If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And teach his feet a measure, And find his mouth a rein; If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Queens, Kings, Pain

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, H. M. Burton (2014). “Selections from Swinburne”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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• If love were what the rose is,
  And I were like the leaf,
  Our lives would grow together
  In sad or singing weather.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Amor, Vida, Matrimonio

  "A Match" l. 1 (1866)

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• Fear that makes faith may break faith.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Fear, May, Break

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1874). “Bothwell: A Tragedy”, p.52

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• In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Dream, World, Awareness

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.291, Carcanet

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• Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Loyalty, Glimpse, Grain

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1968). “The Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne: Prose works”

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• And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Kissing, Names, Blame

  'An Interlude'

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• When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Fate, Men, Compensation

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1968). “The Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne: Prose works”

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