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Quotes from Ulysses — Stephen Phillips

1864–1915 England

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The love that shall not weary, must be art.

Ulysses (1902)

She hath no skill in living—but to love.

Ulysses (1902)

I would not take life but on terms of death,
That sting in the wine of being, salt of its feast.

Ulysses (1902)

Behold me now
A man not old, but mellow, like good wine."

Ulysses (1902)

These draught-boards, ivory inlaid with silver.

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The touch that's gracious, deft, and feminine.

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Duty, that grey ash of a burnt-out fire,
That lie between a woman and a man!

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A shambling shadow, a wrecked, mumbling ghost,
A man no more.

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I'll crouch before I spring, spy ere I leap.

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A mighty spearsman, and a seaman wise,
A hunter, and at need a lord of lies.

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O death, thou hast a beckon to the brave,
Thou last sea of the navigator, last
Plunge of the diver, and last hunter's leap.

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True to a vision, steadfast to a dream.

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With sward of parsley and of violet,
And poplars shivering in a silvery dream,
And smell of cedar sawn, and sandal-wood,
And these low-crying birds that haunt the deep.

Ulysses (1902)

I have learned to dread what cometh suddenly,
And sniff about a sweet thing like a hound:
And most I dread the sudden gifts of gods.

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What were revel without wine?
What were wine without a song?

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When did a lover heed a mother's woe?

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Alas! I am a woman utterly!

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... she who sits enthroned may not prolong
The luxury of tears; nor may she waste.
In lasting widowhood a people's hopes,
So hard is height, so cruel is a crown.

Ulysses (1902)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stephen Phillips (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.