100 Inspiring Quotes By Alfred Lord Tennyson That Will Brighten Up Your Day
The fact that Alfred Lord Tennyson is the ninth most frequently quoted writer in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations tells a lot about the greatness of this ingeniously prolific British poet. Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria’s reign, he was by far one of the most renowned poets of the Victorian era. A child prodigy, Tennyson showed an early interest in writing that cemented his fate for future. However, fame and recognition did not come in easy for this creatively overpowering man as Tennyson in his early years of poetry was condemned as ‘an obscure poet’. Disheartened, he did not pen a poem for nine years. The fourth decade of the 19th century turned Tennyson’s fate and thus marked the start of a legacy. Later in 1850, when Tennyson came up with ‘In Memoriam’, it became the magnum opus of his career. His career peaked to new heights and he was counted as a successor to William Wordsworth. The work also contained many of Tennyson’s most famous phrases that have become commonplaces in English Languages. Quotes that we say often like ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all’ or ‘Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die’ or ‘Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers’ or ‘The old order changeth, yielding place to new’ all came in from the pen of this prolific Victorian poet. Read on to explore a compilation of some of the best known quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson, covering various aspects of life. The quotes would surely leave a lasting impression on your mind and leave you inspired.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...
I am a part of all that I have met.
I will drink life to the lees.
A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.
Sometimes the heart sees what's invisible to the eye.
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.
Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.
Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die
The quiet sense of something lost
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul
I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.
The shell must break before the bird can fly.
The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;" And the white rose weeps, "She is late;" The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear;" And the lily whispers, "I wait.
So runs my dream, but what am I? An infant crying in the night An infant crying for the light And with no language but a cry.
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.
O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
For always roaming with a hungry heart.
So sad, so fresh the days that are no more.
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
