Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

A day may sink or save a realm.

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And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.

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Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

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But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

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The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

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This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.

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He is all fault who has no fault at all.

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...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

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Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

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The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together.

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Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare.

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For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.

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Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

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I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?

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Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

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A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.

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I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies.

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I have led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none, And never yet so warmly ran my blood, And sweetly, on and on Calming itself to the long-wished for end, Full to the banks, close on the prom- ised good.

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Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower-but if I could understand What you are, root and all, all in all, I should know what God and man is.

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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.

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