Philip James Bailey Quotes
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The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.
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Nature means Necessity.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.
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The long days are no happier than the short ones.
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Life hath more awe than death.
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None but the brave and beautiful can love.
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Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above; Ask of the great sun what is light; Ask what is darkness of the night; Ask sin of what may be forgiven; Ask what is happiness of heaven; Ask what is folly of the crowd; Ask what is fashion of the shroud; Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss; Ask of thyself what beauty is.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be.
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Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.
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Every believer is God's miracle.
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Love, like the opening of the heavens to the Saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of the human race. He has faith, hope, and charity for another being, perhaps but a creation of his imagination: still it is a great advance for a man to be profoundly loving even in his imaginations.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
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The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms; And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.
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Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
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Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.
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Fulfill thy fate! Be-do-bear-and thank God.
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Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.
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Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.
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A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.
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The strongest passion which I have is honor.