Poetry Quote by Thomas Hardy — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.”

“I. At Tea”

“—I speak as one who plumbs”

“If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained.”

“So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.”

“Jude leaped out of arm's reach, and walked along the trackway weeping--not from the pain, though that was keen enough; not from the perception of the flaw in the terrestrial scheme, by which what was good for God's birds was bad for God's gardener; but with the awful sense that he had wholly disgraced himself before he had been a year in the parish, and hence might be a burden to his great-aunt for life.”

“Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.”

“Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun”

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;”

“Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.”

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard”

“I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything,”