Coventry Patmore
Coventry Patmore
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmorewas an English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House, his narrative poem about an ideal happy marriage...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth23 July 1823
courage english-poet provided reveal seen waits
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
motivational fool disaster
Nearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions.
eye shadow beloved
What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God.
art knowledge-of-god lines
Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.
mean men wind
The Spirit of man is like a kite, which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise; the tie that joins it to the earth, the opposing winds of temptation, and the weight of earth-born affections which it carries with it into the sky.
darkness blind one-thing
It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.
care agnostic ancient
The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.
women vanity giving
The woman is the man's glory, and she naturally delights in the praises which are assurances that she is fulfilling her function; and she gives herself to him who succeeds in convincing her that she, of all others, is best able to discharge it for him. A woman without this kind of "vanity" is a monster.
love sunshine men
All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.
love sweet book
Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.
time stars sleep
Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod. The winter comes: the frozen rut Is bound with silver bars; the white drift heaps against the hut; and night is pierced with stars.
desire incredibles coventry
The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
strength believe men
Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."
firsts creation fountain
Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.