Poetry Quote by George Eliot — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.”

“Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.”

“Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'”

“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”

“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.”

“I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.”

“Postscript”

“where some god pissed a rain of”

“هَذا الّذي تَعرِفُ البَطْحاءُ وَطْأتَهُ، وَالبَيْتُ يعْرِفُهُ وَالحِلُّ وَالحَرَمُ”

“I am in no mood to write”

“The Way It Is”

“Many women are singing together of this:”