Poetry Quote by Charles Dickens — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.”

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”

“Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:”

“A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.”

“The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.”

“Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could.”

“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”

“Now therefore, while the youthful hue”

“I bade good morrow,”

“The grave's a fine and private place,”

“i like my body when it is with your”

“The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of passing or having passed, or hoping to pass, through certain intense human emotions. It was a phenomenon of orientation rather than of art, thus comparable to stripes of paint on a roadside rock or to a pillared heap of stones marking a mountain trail.”