Harold Monro Quotes

• When the tea is brought at five o'clock
  And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
  The little black cat with bright green eyes
  Is suddenly purring there.

  Harold Monro

  Cat, Eye, Poetry

  Children of Love (1914) "Milk for the Cat"

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• What I saw was just one eye
  In the dawn as I was going:
  A bird can carry all the sky
  In that little button glowing.
  Never in my life I went
  So deep into the firmament.

  Harold Monro

  Eye, Glowing, Sky

  Harold Monro, “The Bird At Dawn”

  6 Copy quote

• Cupid has offered his arrows for Jesus to try;He has offered his bow for the game.But Jesus went weeping away, and left him there wondering why.

  Harold Monro

  Jesus, Arrows, Games

  HAROLD MONRO (1935). “TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY”

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• O gentle vision in the dawn:
  My spirit over faint cool water glides,
  Child of the day,
  To thee;
  And thou art drawn
  By kindred impulse over silver tides
  The dreamy way
  To me.

  Harold Monro

  Art, Children, Water

  Harold Monro, “Child Of Dawn”

  6 Copy quote

• The white saucer like some full moon descends / At last from the clouds of the table above.

  Harold Monro

  Moon, Clouds, White

  1914 'Milk for the Cat'.

  7 Copy quote

• To the acquisition of the rare quality of politeness, so much of the enlightened understanding is necessary that I cannot but consider every book in every science, which tends to make us wiser, and of course better men, as a treatise on a more enlarged system of politeness.

  Harold Monro

  Book, Men, Understanding

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• The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in poetry, if anything, repose from material and nervous anxiety; an apt or chiselled phrase strokes the appetites and tickles the imagination. The more general public merely enjoys its platitudes and truisms jerked on to the understanding in line and rhyme; truth put into metre sounds overwhelmingly true.

  Harold Monro

  Art, Expression, Appreciate

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