“And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift,
Is quick and transient,—comes, and lo! is gone,
While Northern thought is slow and durable.”

Luria, Act v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Oct. 2, 2023. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,—comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is s…" by Robert Browning?
Robert Browning photo
Robert Browning 179
English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era 1812–1889

Related quotes

Stevie Smith photo

“Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East?
This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ.”

Stevie Smith (1902–1971) poet, novelist, illustrator, performer

"The Airy Christ"
Selected Poems (1962)

Theocritus photo

“Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small
Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship's gifts are priceless all."”

Theocritus ancient greek poet

Idyll 28; lines 21-22; translation by C. S. Calverley, from Theocritus, translated into English Verse.
Idylls

Carrie Fisher photo
Mitch Albom photo
Jacqueline Woodson photo

“I feel like, as a person of color, I’ve always been kind of doing the work against the tide…I feel like change is coming, and change sometimes comes too slow for a lot of us. But it comes.”

Jacqueline Woodson (1963) American writer

On writing in an industry that typically prefers White writers in “ Jacqueline Woodson: 'I don't want anyone to feel invisible'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/25/jacqueline-woodson-national-book-awards-invisible in The Guardian (2014 Nov 25)

Zora Neale Hurston photo
James Eastland photo
Roger Ebert photo
Justin Cronin photo

“As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.”

Bradford J. Wolgast
The Passage Trilogy, The Passage (2010)
Source: The Twelve

Related topics