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

“I. At Tea”

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

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

“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.”

“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.”

“At once a voice arose among”

“Here dwell together still two men of note”

“Sometimes I dream”

“from what we cannot hold the stars are made”

“Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul,”

“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.”

“Were knowledge all, what were our need”