"Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will,……" — Alfred Noyes
"Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill."
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Alfred Noyes
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10 Quotes by Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes has 10 quotes on this site.
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Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.
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Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there…
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Bring the buds of the hazel-copse, Where two lovers kissed at noon; Bring the crushed red wild-thyme tops Where they…
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Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.
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There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.
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The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy…
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At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of…
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The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.
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St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that…
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