Poetry Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

13 Poetry quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Bulwer‑Lytton is famous for his novels, yet his verses reveal the same flamboyant flair. This small set showcases his love for rhythm, grand imagery, and the occasional melodramatic turn.

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You speak As one who fed on poetry.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets.

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He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

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The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine…

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Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

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Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits…

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The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.

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Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or…

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Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid…

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Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of…

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They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages,…

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Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom,…

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Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the…

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Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

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It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser…

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In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner…

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Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

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Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily…

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He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

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I did not fall into love - I rose into love.

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Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the…

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