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And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.

For it’s home, dearie, home – it’s home I want to be. Our topsails are hoisted, and we’ll away to sea. O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree They’re all growing green in the old countrie.

Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns.

Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody.

Reading Quotes

Who but knows How it goes! Life’s a last year’s Nightingale, Love’s a last year’s rose.

Into the winter’s gray delight, Into the summer’s golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all men for ever.

Open your heart and take us in, Love-love and me.

A late lark twitters from the quiet skies.

Here is the ghost Of a summer that lived for us, Ere is a promise Of summer to be.

So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me be gathered in the quiet west, The sundown splendid and serene, Death.

Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

Life – life – let there be life! Better a thousand times the roaring hours When wave and wind, Like the Arch-Murderer in flight From the Avenger at his heel, Storm through the desolate fastnesses And wild waste places of the world!

Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one’s own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.

Life is a smoke that curls- Curls in a flickering skein, That winds and whisks and whirls, A figment thin and vain, Into the vast inane. One end for hut and hall.

Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.

Madam Life’s a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she’s the tenant of the room, he’s the ruffian on the stair.

Life is, I think, a blunder and a shame.

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature’s essence.

Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

Life – life – let there be life!

Life is worth Living Through every grain of it, From the foundations To the last edge Of the cornerstone, death.

Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.

Life – give me life until the end, That at the very top of being, The battle-spirit shouting in my blood, Out of the reddest hell of the fight I may be snatched and flung Into the everlasting lull, The immortal, incommunicable dream.

So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.

Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Fate Quotes

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

Inspirational Quotes