“The past is the poet's,—that world is his own;
Thence hath his music its truth and its tone.
He calls up the shadows of ages long fled,
And light, as life lovely, illumines the dead.”
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
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English poet and novelist 1802–1838Related quotes
“Love hath so long possessed me for his own
And made his lordship so familiar.”
Sì lungiamente m'ha tenuto Amore
e costumato a la sua segnoria
Source: La Vita Nuova (1293), Chapter XXIV
Halldór Laxness
(1902–1998) Icelandic author
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Four: The Beauty of the Heavens
“Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.”
Bahá'u'lláh
(1817–1892) founder of the Bahá'í Faith
Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/PB/
Context: Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
“Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.”
Omne aevum curae; cunctis sua displicet aetas.
Ausonius
(310–395) poet
Eclogae 2, line 10; translation from Hugh Gerard Evelyn White Ausonius ([1919-21] 1951) vol. 1, p. 165.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
(1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Source: The Venetian Bracelet (1829), Lines of Life
“Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
(1554–1628) English politician
"Elegy on Sir Philip Sidney" (1593).
