Source: Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood
“To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”
Intimations of Immortality Stanza 11.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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English Romantic poet 1770–1850Related quotes
“In art there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.”
This is a play on "Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears", the last line of William Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode:_Intimations_of_Immortality_from_Recollections_of_Early_Childhood.
Source: Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954), p. 28.
“The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.”
Morgase Trakand
(15 January 1990)
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.”
“Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.”
Being Late http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21366/Being_Late
From the poems written in English
The Ancestress (Spoken by Bertha)
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)