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Famous Thomas Sturge Moore Quotes

Edmund Gosse, quoted in Ferris Greenslet Under the Bridge: An Autobiography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943) p. 104.
Sometimes misattributed to Yeats.
Criticism

“Break free, my soul, good manners are thy tomb!”

Thomas Sturge Moore

"Reason Enough", line 18; from The Sea is Kind (London: Grant Richards, 1914) p. 75.

“Shells with lip, or tooth, or bleeding gum,
Tell-tale shells, and shells that whisper 'Come',
Shells that stammer, blush, and yet are dumb – "
"O let me hear!”

Thomas Sturge Moore

"A Duet", line 5; from The Sea is Kind (London: Grant Richards, 1914) p. 78.

“Then, cleaving the grass, gazelles appear
(The gentler dolphins of kindlier waves)
With sensitive heads alert of ear;
Frail crowds that a delicate hearing saves.”

Thomas Sturge Moore

"The Gazelles", line 13; from The Centaur's Booty (London: Duckworth, 1903) p. ix.

“In my opinion Mr. Moore is a greater poet than Mr. Yeats. He has lived obscurely, and has not displayed Mr. Yeats's talent for self-dramatization; for these reasons and others he has never become a public figure or a popular writer.”

Thomas Sturge Moore

Yvor Winters Uncollected Essays and Reviews (Chicago: Swallow Press, 1973) p. 139.
Criticism

“For milkmaids and queens and gipsy-princesses
Dream and kiss blindfold or starve upon guesses.”

Thomas Sturge Moore

"Reason Enough", line 7; from The Sea is Kind (London: Grant Richards, 1914) p. 75.

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