Arthur Hugh Clough cytaty

Arthur Hugh Clough – angielski poeta.

Był utalentowanym lirykiem dającym w swej twórczości świadectwo niepewności i religijnych rozterek czasów wczesno-wiktoriańskich, a także poszukiwań trwałych wartości moralno-etycznych. Był autorem poematu narracyjnego pisanego heksametrem The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich , epistolarnej powieści wierszem Ambarvailia oraz niedokończonego poematu faustowskiego Dipsychus .

Pochowany na Cimitero degli Inglesi we Florencji.

W ironicznym wierszu The Latest Decalogue wypunktował charakterystyczny dla społeczeństwa kapitalistycznego zanik wartości moralnych i kult zysku i pieniądza:



Thou shalt have one God only; who

Would be at the expense of two?



No graven images may be

Worshipp'd, except the currency: Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Styczeń 1819 – 13. Listopad 1861
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“Say not the struggle nought availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been, things remain.”

Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/strugglenought.html, st. 1 (1862).

“Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market;
Knowledge needful for all, yet cannot be had for the asking.”

The Bothie of Tober-na-vuolich http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/bothie_01.html, Pt. IV (1848).

“Thought may well be ever ranging,
And opinion ever changing,
Task-work be, though ill begun,
Dealt with by experience better;
By the law and by the letter
Duty done is duty done
Do it, Time is on the wing!”

Love, Not Duty http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/lovenotduty.html, st. 1 (1841).

“As ships becalmed at eve, that lay
With canvas drooping, side by side,
Two towers of sail, at dawn of day
Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried.”

Qua Cursum Ventus. Compare: "Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874), Pt. III, The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth, sec. IV.

“No graven images may be
Worshipped, except the currency.”

The Latest Decalogue http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/misc/lastdecalogue.html, l. 3-4 (1862).

“So in the sinful streets, abstracted and alone,
I with my secret self held communing of mine own.”

Easter Day II http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/easterdayii.html, l. 1-2 (1849).

“Each for himself is still the rule
We learn it when we go to school—
The devil take the hindmost, O!”

In the Great Metropolis http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/greatmetropolis.html, st. 1.

“And almost every one when age,
Disease, or sorrows strike him,
Inclines to think there is a God,
Or something very like Him.”

Dipsychus http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/dipsychusprologue.html, Pt. I, sc. v (1862).

“Alas! the great world goes its way,
And takes its truth from each new day;
They do not quit, nor can retain,
Far less consider it again.”

Ah! Yet Consider It Again! http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/considerit.html, st. 4 (1851).

“There is no God,” the wicked saith,
“And truly it’s a blessing,
For what He might have done with us
It’s better only guessing.”

There is No God, the Wicked Sayeth http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/misc/wickedsayeth.html, st. 1 (1862).

“Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there
In small bright specks upon the visible side
Of our strange being’s party-coloured web.”

The Thread of Truth http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/misc/threadtruth.html (1839).

“Dance on, dance on, we see, we see
Youth goes, alack, and with it glee,
A boy the old man ne’er can be;
Maternal thirty scarce can find
The sweet sixteen long left behind.”

Youth and Age http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/youthage.html, st. 1.