Quotes by A. C. Swinburne
A. C. Swinburne
English poet and playwright
Alive from: 1837-1909
Category: Poets (Contemporary) | Writers (Contemporary)
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Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
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From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
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Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.
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Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.
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Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.
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Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives.
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To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
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We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique.
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While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.
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