Quotes from Coventry Patmore

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.

O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One.

All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.

How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life!

The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.

What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God.

Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."

Life is not life at all without delight.

Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.

Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances.

Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise.

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

A Woman is a foreign land,Of which, though there he settle young,A man will ne'er quite understandThe customs, politics, and tongue.

Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

Love wakes men, once a lifetime each;They lift their heavy lids, and look;And, lo, what one sweet page can teach,They read with joy, then shut the book.

For want of me the world's course will not fail;When all its work is done, the lie shall rot;The truth is great, and shall prevail,When none cares whether it prevail or not.