"I have been so great a lover: filled……" — Rupert Brooke
"I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life."
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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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