Rupert Brooke Quotes

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• A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
• Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
• Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
• 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…
• The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.
• If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.
• 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…
• All the little emptiness of love!
• Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.
• 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…
• Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful.
• 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…
• Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.
• I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.
• I have need to busy my heart with quietude.
• 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…
• But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.
• And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish
• There's little comfort in the wise
• 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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