Top 20 Alfred Noyes Quotes
#1. The universe is neither centered on earth nor the sun. It is centered on God.
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#2. Your dreamers may dream it
The shadow of a dream,
Your sages may deem it
A bubble on the stream;
Yet our kingdom draweth nigher
With each dawn and every day,
Through the earthquake and the fire
Love will find out the way.
Alfred Noyes
#3. If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.
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#5. This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes, And steer to Paradise.
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#6. Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth,
And there He lives and dies.
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#7. Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.
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#8. There's a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.
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#9. The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.
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#10. Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.
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#11. St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.
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#12. Bring the buds of the hazel-copse, Where two lovers kissed at noon; Bring the crushed red wild-thyme tops Where they murmured under the moon ...
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#13. At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.
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#14. Heart of my heart, the world is young;
Love lies hidden in every rose!
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#15. Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.
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#16. Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.
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#17. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor,
And the highwayman came riding
Riding
riding
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
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#18. Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.
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#19. Love is in the greenwood, dawn is in the skies, And Marian is waiting with a glory in her eyes.
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#20. Enough of dreams! No longer mock
The burdened hearts of men!
Not on the cloud, but on the rock
Build thou thy faith again; O range no more the realms of air,
Stoop to the glen-bound streams;
Thy hope was all too like despair:
Enough, enough of dreams.
Alfred Noyes
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