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

“Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole”

“I came in haste with cursing breath,”

“I hold it true, whate'er befall;”

“Thine are these orbs of light and shade;”

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

“Dear as remembered kisses after death,”

“I have no doubt at all the Devil grins,”

“I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.”

“Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.”

“[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.”

“Hanged”

“She had more of me then I had of myself. We were both wild birds chasing the stars. We’d lose our way and find new places, close our eyes and fall back towards a constellation of dreams. We wrapped ourselves in a blanket of passion and each night we fell deeper without control, into this strange space called love.”