Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. Thomas Hardy More Quotes by Thomas Hardy More Quotes From Thomas Hardy Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition. Thomas Hardy intuition color ideas Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted." "Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?" "A blighted one. Thomas Hardy apples stars thinking All romances end at marriage. Thomas Hardy romance ends You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then. Thomas Hardy curves eye years In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving Thomas Hardy execution hours men When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines. Thomas Hardy light struggle blue In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say 'See!' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply 'Here!' to a body's cry of 'Where?' till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome outworn game. Thomas Hardy loving-nature games men To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was. Thomas Hardy sports people thinking My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all. Thomas Hardy tess-of-the-d-urbervilles eye littles Done because we are too many. Thomas Hardy done Clare had studied the curves of those lips so many times that he could reproduce them mentally with ease: and now, as they again confronted him, clothed with colour and life, they sent an aura over his flesh, a breeze through his nerves, which wellnigh produced a qualm; and actually produced, by some mysterious physiological process, a prosaic sneeze. Thomas Hardy curves nerves ease I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect. Thomas Hardy felt way Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown. Thomas Hardy crowns bars war Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in. Thomas Hardy indulge-in fate looks If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst. Thomas Hardy A man's silence is wonderful to listen to. Thomas Hardy A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. Thomas Hardy Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson's damn. Thomas Hardy If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place! Thomas Hardy Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. Thomas Hardy
