Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy, OMwas an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens was another important influence. Like Dickens, he was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 June 1840
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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
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Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
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A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
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My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
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If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
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Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.
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You was a good man, and did good things.
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The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
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Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…
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The sky was clear -- remarkably clear -- and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
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Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings.