Rupert Brooke Quotes (54 Quotes)


    But theres wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.


    Infinite hungers leap no more; In the chance swaying of your dress; And love has changed to kindliness.


    Sorrow will I forget, tears for the best, love on the lips of you,
    Now, when dawn in the blood wakes, and the sun laughs up the eastern blue;
    I'll forget and be glad!


    Somewhere, behind space and time, Is wetter water, slimier slime



    Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

    If I should die, think only this of me; That there's some corner of a foreign field; That is for ever England.

    The women there do all they ought The men observe the Rules of Thought. They love the Good they worship Truth They laugh uproariously in youth(And when they get to feeling old, They up and shoot themselves, I'm told).

    The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.

    Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate,
    Where that comes in that shall not go again;
    Love sells the proud heart's citadel to Fate.


    We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.


    One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in Liquidity.

    I dreamt I was in love again
    With the One Before the Last,
    And smiled to greet the pleasant pain
    Of that innocent young past.

    A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

    For England's the one land, I know, Where men with Splendid Hearts may go And Cambridgeshire, of all England, The shire for Men who Understand.


    For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.


    And I shall find some girl perhaps, And a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, And lips as soft, but true, And I daresay she will do.

    Just now the lilac is in bloom All before my little room.

    But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, Is wetter water, slimier slime; And there (they trust) there swimmeth One; Who swam ere rivers were begun, Immense, of fishy form and mind, Squamous, omnipotent, and kind.


    A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

    For what they'd never told me of,
    And what I never knew;
    It was that all the time, my love,
    Love would be merely you.


    the poor love of fools and blind I've proved you,
    For, foul or lovely, 'twas a fool that loved you.

    And when we die
    All's over that is ours; and life burns on
    Through other lovers, other lips" said I,
    "Heart of my heart, our heaven is now, is won!

    When you were there, and you, and you,
    Happiness crowned the night; I too,
    Laughing and looking, one of all,
    I watched the quivering lamplight fall
    On plate and flowers and pouring tea
    And cup and cloth; and they and we
    Flung all the dancing moments by
    With jest and glitter.



    Dumb lay the unfalling stream;
    Life one eternal instant rose in dream
    Clear out of time, poised on a golden height.

    And Life has fired, and Death not shaded,
    All Time's uncounted bliss,
    And the height o' the world has flamed and faded,
    Love, that our love be this!


    Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful.

    Dear, we know only that we sigh, kiss, smile;
    Each kiss lasts but the kissing; and grief goes over;
    Love has no habitation but the heart.

    A pulse in the eternal mind, no less; Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given. Her sights and sounds dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

    War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour Safe though all safety's lost safe where men fall And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.

    When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here' And the Woman said 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'

    Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping.






    Oh Death will find me long before I tire; Of watching you and swing me suddenly; Into the shade and loneliness and mire; Of the last land.


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