Quotes About Victorian Poetry

#1. Life is a picnic on a precipice.

W. H. Auden

#2. Surely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil, the shore
Than labor in the deep mid-ocean, wind and wave and oar;
O, rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more.

Alfred Tennyson

#3. I tasted - perhaps for the first time - the true sweetness of possibility.

Saundra Mitchell

#4. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

Margaret Fuller

#5. You make such beautiful poetry out of what you call your love and your unhappiness. Marriage would be such a dull affair in comparison.

Orna Ross

#6. Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and holy, and fleet. There is nothing to be done about it, but ignore it, or see.

Annie Dillard

#7. Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.

Washington Irving

#8. when God is the captain of your ship, your future looks a whole lot brighter than your past!

P.L. Wilson

#9. You begin to cry and writhe and yell and then to keep on crying; and finally, grief ends up giving you the two best gifts: softness and illumination. Every

Anne Lamott

#10. But love is a stubborn thing to conquer. When you think you've killed it, it's liable to bob up again as strong as ever.

L. Frank Baum

#11. Mistakes were made.
Others were blamed.

Darynda Jones

#12. I had to learn to get comfortable in a role of ambiguity where I had to seek out advisers and learn quickly.

Brian Chesky

#13. Visitors come and go.
Daily I read tea leaves for signs
of the approaching century:
a raven perched on a cross
a sword piercing a cloud
A Victorian Life

Clara Blackwood

#14. Then there's Isabel Leonard, as the male character, Sesto. Her voice has the rich, fragrant depth of sandalwood and she looks so sublimely boyish yet fulsomely feminine that she combines the best of both genders. I adored her.

Richard Ouzounian