Life for delays and doubts no time does give,
None ever yet made haste enough to live.
Abraham Cowley Quotes
1618–1667 England
Abraham Cowley (1618 – July 28, 1667) was an English metaphysical poet. In his own time he was widely considered the greatest poet of the age.
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Also known as: Cowley, Abraham, A. Cowley
65 quotes
For the whole world, without a native home,
Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
And all you men, whom greatness does so please,
Ye feast, I fear, like Damocles.
The world's a scene of changes, and to be
Constant, in Nature were inconstancy.
The Mistress (1647)
Lukewarmness I account a sin
As great in love as in religion.
The Mistress (1647)
We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blush'd before.
Works (1668)
We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blushed before.
His time's forever, everywhere his place.
Words that weep and tears that speak.
Poems (1656)
Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all,
Both the great vulgar and the small.
Works (1668)
Acquaintance I would have, but when't depends
Not on the number, but the choice of friends.
Works (1668)
Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discover
And not to me, thy no less silent lover?
Poems (1656)
Poems (1656)
Ev'en Thou my breast with such blest rage inspire,
As mov'd the tuneful strings of Davids Lyre
Poems (1656)
Poems (1656)
Fond archer, Hope! who tak'st thy aim so far,
That still or short, or wide thine arrows are!
Poems (1656)
Thus would I double my life's fading space;
For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
Works (1668)
Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit
Of poets triumphs over it.
Works (1668)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Abraham Cowley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.