Poetry Quote by Alfred Tennyson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”

“That loss is common would not make”

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”

“No puedo dejar de viajar; quiero beber la vida hasta la última gota. He disfrutado mucho, he sufrido mucho, tanto con quienes me amaron como en soledad; en tierra y cuando con veloces ráfagas las Híades de la lluvia irritaban al mar oscuro. Me he hecho un nombre.”

“I sometimes hold it half a sin”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”

“Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,”

“So runs my dream, but what am I?”

“If you're anything like me,”

“If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I would have said, ‘You’re out of your mind. Why would I have Skokie in a poem?’ But you become resigned. Your job is to write about the life you actually have.”

“I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist enamored of a solar order and never of the new order or whatever slogan makes five or six hundred million men march in step in a parody of order.”

“See”