Christopher Smart Quotes

• For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the lily. For the flowers have great virtues for all senses. For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary. For the flowers have their angels even the words of God's creation. For there is a language of flowers. For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

  Christopher Smart

  Flower, Angel, Blessing

  Christopher Smart, “Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 3”

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• There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.

  Christopher Smart

  Cat

  Christopher Smart (2016). “Routledge Revivals: The Collected Poems of Christopher Smart (1949): Volume One”, p.329, Routledge

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• Glorious the song, when God's the theme.

  Christopher Smart

  Song, Theme, Glorious

  'A Song to David' (1763) st. 85

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• For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.

  Christopher Smart

  Sea, Pearls

  'Jubilate Agno' Fragment B, l. 30

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• For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

  Christopher Smart

  Flower, Sound, Christ

  Christopher Smart (2016). “Routledge Revivals: The Collected Poems of Christopher Smart (1949): Volume One”, p.320, Routledge

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• For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

  Christopher Smart

  Reading, Library, World

  Christopher Smart (2016). “Routledge Revivals: The Collected Poems of Christopher Smart (1949): Volume One”, p.293, Routledge

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• Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.

  Christopher Smart

  Paper, Sun, Desks

  Horace, Christopher Smart (1819). “The Works of Horace”, p.235

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• And now the matchless deed's achieved, Determined, Dared, and Done.

  Christopher Smart

  Achievement, Done, Deeds

  'A Song to David' (1763) st. 85

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• Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small- clothes and looks as if he smelt it.

  Christopher Smart

  Clothes, Looks, Gray

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• Too hard for any frog's digestion,To have his froghood call'd in question!

  Christopher Smart

  Frogs, Digestion, Hard

  Christopher Smart (1791). “The poems, of the late Christopher Smart, ... Consisting of his prize poems, odes, sonnets, and fables, Latin and English translations; ...”, p.16

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• Sweet the young muse with love intense,
  Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence.

  Christopher Smart

  Sweet, Sleep, Innocence

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• For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.

  Christopher Smart

  Cat, Blessing, House

  Christopher Smart, Karina Williamson (1990). “Selected poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• Thus when a barber and a collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier-white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And big with vengeance beats the barber-black. In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'erspread, And beats the collier and the barber-red: Black, red, and white in various clouds are tost, And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.

  Christopher Smart

  Fighting, Men, Clouds

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