“It was mid-May time, bringing with it weather not, perhaps, quite so blooming as that assumed to be natural to the month… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“On a Fine Morning” in Poems of the Past and the Present (1901) WHENCE comes Solace?--Not from seeing What is doing, suffering,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The poetry of motion is a phrase much in use, and to enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“People say I must be cold–natured—sexless—on account of it. But I won’t have it! Some of the most passionately erotic poets have… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“ Hap If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing, Know that… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“ Channel Firing That night your great guns, unawares, Shook all our coffins as we lay, And broke the chancel window-squares, We… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The world is as it used to be: “All nations striving strong to make Red war yet redder. Mad as hatters They… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She's brim full of poetry - actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She lives what paper-poets only write...” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She was in a sound sleep, Jude, dying of anxiety lest she should have caught a chill which might permanently injure her, was glad… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It was mid-May time, bringing with it weather not, perhaps, quite so blooming as that assumed to be natural to the month by the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It being the first time in his life that he had touched female fingers under water, Dick duly registered the sensation as rather a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“As soon as she could discern the outline of the house, it had all its old effect upon Tess's imagination. Part of her body… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
