"And I shall find some girl perhaps, and……" — Rupert Brooke
"And I shall find some girl perhaps, and a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true, and I dare say she will do."
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33 Quotes by Rupert Brooke
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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 -…
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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…
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