Rupert Brooke Quotes
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A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
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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…
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The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.
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If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.
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Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts…
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All the little emptiness of love!
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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.
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It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or…
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Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful.
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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…
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Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.
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I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.
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I have need to busy my heart with quietude.
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I have a thousand images of you in an hour; all different and all coming back to the same. I think of you once against…
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But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.
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And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish
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There's little comfort in the wise
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There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to…
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