Quotes from Ralph Hodgson

The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.

God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas.

Without a wish, without a will, I stood upon that silent hill And stared into the sky until My eyes were blind with stars and still I stared into the sky.

Some things have to be believed in to be seen.

Time, You Old Gypsy Man Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day?

I saw with open eyes Singing birds sweet Sold in the shops For people to eat, Sold in the shops of Stupidity Street. I saw in vision The worm in the wheat, And in the shops nothing For people to eat; Nothing for sale in Stupidity Street.

Reason has moons, but moons not hers Lie mirrored on her sea, Confounding her astronomers, But, oh, delighting me!

Unbody me–I'm tired–and get me home.

I did not pray Him to lay bare The mystery to me, Enough the rose was Heaven to smell, And His own face to see.

Time, you old gipsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day?

God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas.

Reason has moons, but moons not hers Lie mirror'd on the sea, Confounding her astronomers, But, O! delighting me.

BABYLON — where I go dreaming When I weary of to-day, Weary of a world grown grey.

God loves an idle rainbow, No less than labouring seas.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?