Coventry Patmore citations

Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore était un poète anglais et un critique littéraire plus particulièrement connu pour son poème narratif The Angel in the House, décrivant son idéal d'un mariage heureux.

Au travers de ce poème, il eut une influence manifeste sur la conception de la femme idéale dans la société victorienne.

The Angel in the House trouve sa suite dans les poèmes suivants de Coventry Patmore, The Espousals , Faithful for Ever , et The Victories of Love .

Valery Larbaud, qui lui consacra une étude, et Paul Claudel, qui traduisit certains de ses poèmes pour la N.R.F., lui vouaient une grande admiration. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. juillet 1823 – 26. novembre 1896
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Coventry Patmore: 33 citations0 J'aime

Coventry Patmore: Citations en anglais

“The proper study of mankind is woman.”

Coventry Patmore

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 77.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“To have nought
Is to have all things without care or thought!”

Coventry Patmore

Legem Tuam Dilexi, p. 47.
The Unknown Eros and Other Poems (1877)

“Life is not life at all without delight.”

Coventry Patmore

Victory in Defeat, p. 36.
The Unknown Eros and Other Poems (1877)

“The flower of olden sanctities.”

Coventry Patmore

1867, p. 123.
The Unknown Eros and Other Poems (1877)

“A woman is a foreign land.”

Coventry Patmore

Book II. Canto IX, II The Foreign Land.
The Angel In The House (1854)

“None thrives for long upon the happiest dream.”

Coventry Patmore

Tired Memory, p. 95.
The Unknown Eros and Other Poems (1877)

“Modern Philosophers, that wisely keep to sandy shallows, like shrimps, for fear of bigger fish.”

Coventry Patmore

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 76.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“Life's warp of Heaven and woof of Hell.”

Coventry Patmore

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 75.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“The enthusiasm for goodness which shows that it is not the habit of the mind.”

Coventry Patmore

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 75.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“Nothing remains with man unless it is insinuated with some delight.”

Coventry Patmore

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 74.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“Holy indignation is a proof that we should do the same thing ourselves, and easy tears are a certain sign of a hard heart.”

Coventry Patmore

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 74.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“As the Word of God is God's image, so the word of man is his image, and "a man is known by his speech."”

Coventry Patmore

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 72.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“The cloud that is light to Israel is darkness to Egypt.”

Coventry Patmore

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 71.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“Nothingness is capacity, and night the opportunity of light.”

Coventry Patmore

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 68.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.”

Coventry Patmore

Aurea Dicta XLIV, p. 15.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

“The Catholic Church itself has been nearly killed by the infection of the puritanism of the Reformation.”

Coventry Patmore

Magna Moralia XLIX, p. 201.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

“God is the only reality, and we are real only so far as we are in His order, and He is in us.”

Coventry Patmore

Magna Moralia XXII, p. 172.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

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