Quotes by Thomas Moore

“I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope,That star on life's tremulous ocean.”

“Besides, the story is ambivalent and mysterious in its ending. Is this Alkestis returning from down below? Why does she have a veil over her face? Could it be that when we forcefully bring back to ...”

“A man or a woman can inspire such deep fantasy and emotion that through the lovemaking embrace of a partners body we make break through the limits of the human condition to touch upon another level...”

“There's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. ”

“It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.”

“Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu”

“An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more science and math, the use of computers and other technology in...”

“We have to start from the ground up and reconsider what education is. In my language, I'd like to see us educate the soul, and not just the mind. The result would be a person who could be in the wo...”

“Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.”

“Believe me, if all those endearing young charms,Which I gaze on so fondly to-day,Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms,Live fairy-gifts fading away,Thou wouldst still be adored, as this...”

“Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination”

“Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of its unearthly cravings and needs. We think that when a lover inflates his loved one he is failing t...”

“Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.”

“The friendship that like live is warm; a love like friendship, steady.”

“Oft in the stilly night,Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,Fond memory brings the lightOf other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood years,The words of love then spoken; The eyes that sh...”

“Technologies of the soul tend to be simple, bodily, slow and related to the heart as much as the mind. Everything around us tells us we should be mechanically sophisticated, electronic, quick, and ...”

“Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see,Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me;In exile thy bosom shall still be my home,And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.”

“The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.”

“The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.”

“Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.”