Epes Sargent Professions : Poet Born : September 27, 1813 Died : December 30, 1880 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by Epes Sargent A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep! Epes Sargent ocean home life Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful. Epes Sargent ungrateful apathy sacrifice The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage. Epes Sargent remembrance soul bird The cold blast at the casement beats;The window-panes are white;The snow whirls through the empty streets;It is a dreary night! Epes Sargent window-panes white night The whole east was flecked With flashing streaks and shafts of amethyst, While a light crimson mist Went up before the mounting luminary, And all the strips of cloud began to vary Their hues, and all the zenith seemed to ope As if to show a cope beyond the cope! Epes Sargent sunrise light clouds There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason. Epes Sargent reason-for-everything reason latin True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations. Epes Sargent religious spring men Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors