Stephen Phillips Quotes
1864–1915 England
Stephen Phillips (28 July 1864 – 9 December 1915) was an English poet and dramatist.
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52 quotes
How good it is to live, even at the worst!
It is the fault of dreamers to fear fate.
She hath no skill in living—but to love.
I would not take life but on terms of death,
That sting in the wine of being, salt of its feast.
Behold me now
A man not old, but mellow, like good wine."
These draught-boards, ivory inlaid with silver.
The touch that's gracious, deft, and feminine.
The gentle are tame birds that feed the hawk.
Duty, that grey ash of a burnt-out fire,
That lie between a woman and a man!
A shambling shadow, a wrecked, mumbling ghost,
A man no more.
What is the love of men that women seek it?
I'll crouch before I spring, spy ere I leap.
Sea-faring men with their sea-weary eyes.
The half of music, I have heard men say,
Is to have grieved; when comes the lonely wail
Over the mind.
The dead who frown I fear not: but I fear
The dead who smile!
The pastoral fields burned by the setting sun.
The illumed unconscious faces of the crowd!
The greenly silent and cool-growing night.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stephen Phillips (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.