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Theodore Watts-Dunton was an English critic and poet. He is often remembered as the friend and minder of Algernon Charles Swinburne, whom he rescued from alcoholism. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. October 1832 – 6. June 1914
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Famous Theodore Watts-Dunton Quotes

“A sonnet is a wave of melody
From heaving waters of the impassion'd soul.”

Theodore Watts-Dunton

from The Sonnets Voice (A Meterical Lesson by the Seashore).

“Man's knowledge, save before his fellow man,
Is ignorance—his widest wisdom folly.”

Theodore Watts-Dunton

The Coming of Love and Other Poems (1897)
Source: "Prophetic Pictures at Venice VII: New Year's Morning, 1867", p. 207.

“When hope lies dead—ah, when 'tis death to live,
And wrongs remembered make the heart still bleed,
Better are Sleep's kind lies for Life's blind need
Than truth, if lies a little peace can give.”

Theodore Watts-Dunton

"Prophetic Pictures at Venice II: The Temptation", p. 199.
The Coming of Love and Other Poems (1897)

“We looked o'er London, where men wither and choke,
Roofed in, poor souls, renouncing stars and skies,
And lore of woods and wild wind prophecies,
Yea, every voice that to their fathers spoke.”

Theodore Watts-Dunton

"A Talk on Waterloo Bridge: The Last Sight of George Borrow", p. 150.
The Coming of Love and Other Poems (1897)

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