"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." -- Alfred Lord Tennyson #Tennyson #knowledge #wisdom #love #life #death #books #poems #literature #Caravaggio

"My heart locks at the knees when it should fall." -- Jean Clower #JeanClower #poems #1950s #Americana #books #literature #life #death #love #hearts #EthelFranklinBetts

"I've never been able to write a happy play, but I've been able to enjoy a happy life." -- Harold Pinter #HaroldPinter #Pinter #England #love #life #death #drama #poems #literature #books #drama #painting #JustinMortimer

"Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book." -- John Donne #JohnDonne #Donne #Ecstasy #mystery #soul #body #love #life #death #England #books #poems #Literature #Penelope #DavidLigare

"Then falter not O book, fulfill your destiny." -- Walt Whitman #WaltWhitman #books #poems #literature #destiny #Americana #life #love #death

"When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, But his books were read.'" -- Hillaire Belloc #HillaireBelloc #Belloc #dead #speech #love #life #death #books #poems #literature

"I shall remember you with love, or season My scorn with pity." -- Edna St. Vincent Millay #EdnaStVincentMillay #Millay #poems #books #literature #love #life #death #scorn #pity #memory

"An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day." -- Henry David Thoreau #HenryDavidThoreau #Thoreau #walking #morning #blessing #love #life #death #books #poems #literature #Americana

"Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time." -- John Donne #JohnDonne #HenriMartin #Donne #love #time #life #death #England #books #poems #literature

"A creative life is an energetic life." -- José Ortega y Gasset #JoséOrtegayGasset #creativity #life #love #death #books #poems #literature #Spain #energy #Annenkov

"The man who follows nature and not vain opinions is independent in all things." -- Epicurus #Epicurus #nature #opinions #independence #love #life #death #Greece #Classics #books #poems #literature #GrandmaMoses

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me." -- William Shakespeare #WilliamShakespeare #Shakespeare #time #love #life #death #England #books #poems #literature #RichardtheSecond #Donghi

"We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall." -- Robert Graves #RobertGraves #betrayal #love #life #death #books #poems #literature #Bouguereau

"Most of what happens, happens beyond words." -- Dana Gioia #DanaGioia #poems #books #literature #ItzchakTarkay #Tarkay #painting #love #life #death #words

"A great romance is like a flower whose smell reminds you of something you can't quite place." -- C. S. Lewis #CSLewis #romance #flowers #love #life #death #books #poems #literature #England #Waterhouse #SouloftheRose

"An artist is the magician put among men to gratify — capriciously — their urge for immortality." -- Tom Stoppard #TomStoppard #Stoppard #books #poems #literature #immortality #magic #artist #England

"All my days are trances." -- Edgar Allan Poe #EdgarAllanPoe #Poe #days #trance #dreams #books #literature #poems #America #love #life #death

"They lie in slumber late, the acrobats; They sleep and do not know the sun is up." -- Robert Lax #RobertLax #CircusoftheSun #books #poems #Literature #acrobat #love #life #death #sunrise

"Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth." -- Giuseppe Mazzini #GiuseppeMazzini #Mazzini #tradition #conscience #soul #truth #love #life #death #books #literature #poems #HenriMartin

"Let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing." -- Khalil Gibran #KhalilGibran #soul #reason #passion #singing #exaltation #poems #books #literature #life #love #death #AfifaAleiby