Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
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
Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Topics: Time Management, Time
Man, a dunce uncouth, errs in age and youth: babies know the truth.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Topics: Children
A little space of time before time expires; a little way of breath.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Topics: Time Management
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 in life.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Topics: Greatness
For winter’s rains and ruins are over,
And all the seasons of snows and sins;
The days dividing lover and lover,
The light that loses, the night that wins;
And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Topics: Seasons
Change lays her hand not upon the truth.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Topics: Change
We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Topics: Hope
Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Topics: Loyalty
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley English Poet
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning English Poet
- Robert Browning English Poet
- Christina Rossetti English Poet
- Coventry Patmore English Writer
- Philip Larkin English Poet
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon English Poet, Novelist
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu English Aristocrat, Poet
- John Masefield English Poet
- Francis Thompson English Poet
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