Quotes by Francis Thompson

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Poet · English · 1859–1907

English poet (1859–1907)

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“What you theoretically know vividly realize.”

“My freshness is spending its wavering shower in the dust.”

“In all change well looked into the germinal good out-vails the apparent ill.”

“Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there.”

Common Themes

“Where is the land of Luthany,Where is the tract of Elenore?I am bound therefore.'Pierce thy heart to find the key;With thee takeOnly what none else would keep;Learn to dream when thou dost wake;Lea...”

— Francis Thompson

connection death flower hope

“The fairest things have fleetest end,Their scent survives their close:But the rose's scent is bitternessTo her who loved the rose.”

— Francis Thompson

grief loss yearning

“My freshness is spending its wavering shower in the dust.”

— Francis Thompson

idleness youth

“All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.”

— Francis Thompson

Flower Star Troubling

“Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there.”

— Francis Thompson

flowers love nature-writing summer

“In all change well looked into the germinal good out-vails the apparent ill.”

— Francis Thompson

change

“What you theoretically know vividly realize.”

— Francis Thompson

getting going

“Nothing begins and nothing ends That is not paid with moan For we are born in others' pain And perish in our own.”

— Francis Thompson

pain

“In all change well looked into the germinal good out-vails the apparent ill.”

— Francis Thompson

change

“What you theoretically know vividly realize.”

— Francis Thompson

getting going

“Nothing begins and nothing ends That is not paid with moan For we are born in others' pain And perish in our own.”

— Francis Thompson

pain