Quotes by Andrew Marvell

“The grave's a fine and private place,But none, I think, do there embrace.”

“But at my back I always hear Times wingd chariot hurrying near”

“Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long loves day.”

“Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.”

“Had we but world enough, and time”

“Thus, though we cannot make our sunStand still, yet we will make him run.”

“Had we but world enough, and time...”

“Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpiresAt every pore with instant fires, Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amoro...”

“My vegetable love will growVaster than empires, and more slow.”

“To wander solitary there:Two paradises twere in oneTo live in paradise alone.”

“My love is of a birth as rareAs 'tis, for object, strange and high;It was begotten by DespairUpon Impossibility.”

“But Fate does iron wedges drive,And always crowds itself betwixt.”

“As lines, so loves oblique may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet. Therefore the love which us doth bind, But Fate so enviously debars...”

“He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene.”

“But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found; Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My ...”

“But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near”

“To wander solitary there:Two paradises ‘twere in oneTo live in paradise alone.”

“He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene.”

“Popery is such a thing as cannot, but for want of a word to express it, be called a religion; nor is it to be mentioned with that civility which is otherwise decent to be used in speaking about the...”

“Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.”