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And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?
Is not all the power on Earth bestowed on us {the Pope}, even if we wanted to, can do no wrong?
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
But I am constant as the Northern Star,
Of whose true fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
My mind may be American but my heart is British.
T. S. Eliot
Bell, book, and candle, candle book and bell, forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell.
Anon you shall hear a hog grunt,a calf bleat, and an ass bray,
Because it is Saint Peter's holy day
Christopher Marlowe
Quick now, here, now, always-
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.
William Shakespeare, Othello
What virtue is it that is born with us?
Much less can honor be ascribed thereto,
Honor is purchased by the deeds we do.
Believe me, Hero, honor is not won,
Until some honorable deed be done.
----From “Hero and Leander, Sestiad I
Christopher Marlowe, The Complete Poems and Translations
Discretion is the better part of valor.
---William Shakespeare
By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the the universe
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.
William Shakespeare, King Lear
I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks!
You sulphurour and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once
That make ingrateful man!
William Shakespeare , King Lear
What ho, hostess! Where be these whores?
Christopher Marlowe
I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy
eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
I wish, grave governor, 'twere in my power
To favour you; but 'tis my father's cause,
Wherein I may not, nay, I dare not dally.
Christopher Marlowe
We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living
Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world,
And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.
---W.B. Yeats
The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
William Shakespeare, King John
Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace!
And, lips, oh you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death!
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Let the great world spin for ever down
the ringing grooves of change.
---Alfred Lord Tennyson
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
---William Shakespeare
In dreams begin responsibilities.
----William Butler Yeats
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for
you and dote upon the exchange.
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days, —
I am determined to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
William Shakespeare, Richard III
Who is this? And what is here?
And in the lighted palace near
Died the sound of royal cheer;
And they crossed themselves for fear,
All the Knights at Camelot;
But Lancelot mused a little space
He said, "She has a lovely face;
God in his mercy lend her grace,
The Lady of Shalott.
---Alfred Tennyson
So fair and foul a day I have not seen.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well.
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
And worse I may be yet: the worst is not
So long as we can say 'This is the worst.
William Shakespeare, King Lear
Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell?
-Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil
William Butler Yeats
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depths of some devine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.
---Alfred Lord Tennyson
speak silence with thy glimmering eyes, And wash the dusk with silver.
---William Blake
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
---Yeats, William Butler
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true;
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
---William Butler Yeats
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
---William Blake
...I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made...
---William Butler Yeats
I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
-----William Blake
My work is visionary or imaginative. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care...
---William Blake
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue that Shakespeare spoke: the faith and morals hold which Milton held.
----William Wordsworth
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
----William Blake
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
---William Blake
Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.
----Philip Larkin