Philip James Bailey
Philip James Bailey
Philip James Baileywas an English Spasmodic poet, best known as the author of Festus...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 April 1816
equality earth sole
The sole equality on earth is death.
motivational art simplicity
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
heaven
I cannot be content with less than heaven.
running doubt gauntlet
I run the gauntlet of a file of doubts, Each one of which down hurls me to the ground.
beauty beautiful men
The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.
men giving advice
The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
writing heart mind
Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
book solitude care
Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
light poet worms
For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
men accidents
What men call accident is God's own part.
music
Music tells no truths.
inspiration night light
Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.
death war blood
Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.
night shadow
Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.