Quotes from Eleanor Farjeon

Morning has broken Like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird.

Praise with elation Praise every morning Spring's re-creation Of the First Day!

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.

Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest.

I want to be good...I try to be good, I do try, and to like everybody. But there are some people - some people I can't like, however much I try. I hate them - there!

In the woods the bluebells seem Like a blue and magic dream, Blue water, light and air Flow among them there. But the eager girl who pulls Bluebells up in basketfuls When she gets them home will find The magic left behind.

And some young country miss Giving her lad a kiss, Quite certain that the olden times were not so good as this.

All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.

He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them.

In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.

We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them.