Poetry Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . .”

“Fare well we call to hearth and hall”

“There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

“The world was fair, the mountains tall”

“I perceived or thought of the Light of God and in it suspended one small mote (or millions of motes to only one of which was my small mind directed), glittering white because of the individual ray from the Light which both held and lit it...And the ray was the Guardian Angel of the mote: not a thing interposed between God and the creature, but God's very attention itself, personalized...This is a finite parallel to the Infinite. As the love of the Father and Son (who are infinite and equal) is a Person, so the love and attention of the Light to the Mote is a person (that is both with us and in Heaven): finite but divine, i.e. angelic.”

“Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul,”

“Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.”

“The Magi”

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

“The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.”

“Because she—you hear her—she's calling,”