Quotes from Alfred Lord Tennyson

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

Be near me when my light is low.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Love is the only gold.

I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.

She is coming, my own, my sweet;Were it ever so airy a tread,My heart would hear her and beat,Were it earth in an earthy bed;My dust would hear her and beat,Had I lain for a century dead;Would start and tremble under her feet,And blossom in purple and red.

Once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul thro' My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

The last great Englishman is low.

Now lies the Earth all Danaë to the stars,And all thy heart lies open unto me.

And Time, a maniac scattering dust,And Life, a Fury slinging flame.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

For men may come and men may go,But I go on forever.

I sometimes hold it half a sinTo put in words the grief I feel;For words, like Nature, half revealAnd half conceal the Soul within.

Weeded and worn the ancient thatchUpon the lonely moated grange.

I hope to see my Pilot face to faceWhen I have crossed the bar.

"Tirra lirra," by the riverSang Sir Lancelot.

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

Someone had blundered.

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:The firefly wakens: waken thou with me.

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky!

The lion on your old stone gatesIs not more cold to you than I.