The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know. Coventry Patmore More Quotes by Coventry Patmore More Quotes From Coventry Patmore Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done! Coventry Patmore done soul love-you I drew my bride, beneath the moon,Across my threshold; happy hour!But, ah, the walk that afternoonWe saw the water-flags in flower! Coventry Patmore flower moon water For want of me the world's course will not fail;When all its work is done the lie shall rot;The truth is great and shall prevailWhen none cares whether it prevail or not. Coventry Patmore care want lying They who ask for no sign shall have many. Coventry Patmore asks None thrives for long upon the happiest dream. Coventry Patmore thrive dream long How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life! Coventry Patmore kissing music light The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight. Coventry Patmore sunshine dream sweet If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance: a sphere in which the soul says: 'Shall I, a gnat which dances in Thy ray, Dare to be reverent?' Coventry Patmore gnats laughter soul What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God. Coventry Patmore shadow lovers eye Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid. Coventry Patmore knowledge-of-god lines art The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so. Coventry Patmore coventry incredibles desire Ah, wasteful woman, she who may Coventry Patmore wine sweet men Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances. Coventry Patmore hatred may love O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One. Coventry Patmore heart remember men The moods of love are like the wind, Coventry Patmore mood wind life Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century. Coventry Patmore century common writing All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence. Coventry Patmore ends self reason The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O. Coventry Patmore midges beats wings Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book. Coventry Patmore sweet love book All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak. Coventry Patmore sunshine love men
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