Poetry Quote by Jerome K. Jerome — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them--the soft singing of the waters, the wisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind--should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not.”

“A woman never thoroughly cares for her”

“Speak truth, and right will take care of itself.”

“I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.”

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”

“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.”

“I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough”

“you’re already naked in this world”

“We pull our boots on with both hands”

“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”

“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.”

“I wanted the past to go away, I wanted”