Bayard Taylor Quotes

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• I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.

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  I Love You, Old Love, Thee

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.134

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• With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!

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  Children, Spring, Dark

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.408

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• The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Stars, Healing

  Bayard Taylor (1873). “Lars: A Pastoral of Norway”, p.144

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• Learn to live, and live to learn,
  Ignorance like a fire doth burn,
  Little tasks make large return.

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  Learning, Ignorance, Fire

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• And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.

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  Tides, Poppies, Bonfire

  Bayard Taylor (1857). “Poems of the Orient”, p.20

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• The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.

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  Fool, Annoying, Wells

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• By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

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  Wisdom, Riches, Wealth

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.129

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• He teaches best,
  Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast,
  And knows their strength or weakness through his own.

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  Heart, Men, Experience

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.93

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• And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.

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  Pain, Wind, Sea

  Bayard Taylor (1856). “Poems”, p.226

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• The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

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  Courage, Engagement, Daring

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• Pens carry further than rifled cannon.

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  Cannons, Pens

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• Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.

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  Wise, Opportunity, Men

  Bayard Taylor (2016). “A Journey to Central Africa: Egypt and Soudan, 1851”, p.43, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses

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  Kissing, Granted, Stolen

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.162

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• It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

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  People, Different, Firsts

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.88

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• But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!

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  Stars, Moon, Night

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.311

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• Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few,
  And soon the grassy coverlet of God
  Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.

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  Death, Ashes, Green

  Bayard Taylor (1867). “The Picture of St. John”, p.168

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• Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.

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  Heart, Solitude, Toil

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.28

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• Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.

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  Tangible, Taste, Jewelry

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• To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.

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  People, Observation

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• The Prophet's words were true;
  The mouth of Ali is the golden door
  Of Wisdom."
  When his friends to Ali bore
  These words, he smiled and said: "And should they ask
  The same until my dying day, the task
  Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well,
  Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

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  Wisdom, Doors, Dying

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.130

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• Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.

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  Perseverance, Hard Work, Excellence

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• The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.

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  Heart, Fire, Blood

  Bayard Taylor (1865). “The Poems of Bayard Taylor”, p.13, Boston : Ticknor and Fields

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• The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one,
  In the slow process of the doubtful years.

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  Years, Poet, Process

  Bayard Taylor (1863). “The Poet's Journal”, p.122

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• Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

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  Sea, Voyages, Comfort

  Bayard Taylor (1870). “Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.25

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• Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.

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  Past, Mind, Mountain

  Bayard Taylor (1869). “Views Afoot; Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.53

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