Rupert Brooke quotes are thought-provoking, memorable and inspiring. From views on society and politics to thoughts on love and life, Rupert Brooke has a lot to say. In this list we present the 11 best Rupert Brooke quotes, in no particular order. Let yourself get inspired!
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Rupert Brooke quotes
Spend the glittering moonlight therePursuing down the soundless deepLimbs that gleam and shadowy hair, Or floating lazy, half-asleep.Dive and double and follow after, Snare in flowers, and kiss, and call, With lips that fade, and human laughterAnd faces individual, Well this side of Paradise! . . .There’s little comfort in the wise.
— Rupert Brooke, The Collected Poems
Stands the Church clock at ten to three?And is there honey still for tea?
— Rupert Brooke, The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
Ah God! to see the branches stir Across the moon at Grantchester! To smell the thrilling-sweet and rotten Unforgettable, unforgotten River-smell, and hear the breeze Sobbing in the little trees. Say, do the elm-clumps greatly stand Still guardians of that holy land? The chestnuts shade, in reverend dream, The yet unacademic streamIs dawn a secret shy and cold Anadyomene, silver-gold? And sunset still a golden sea From Haslingfield to Madingley? And after, ere the night is born, Do hares come out about the corn? Oh, is the water sweet and cool, Gentle and brown, above the pool? And laughs the immortal river still Under the mill, under the mill?Say, is there Beauty yet to find? And Certainty? and Quiet kind? Deep meadows yet, for to forget The lies, and truths, and pain?… oh! yet Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?
— Rupert Brooke, The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
My night shall be remembered for a starThat outshone all the suns of all men’s days
— Rupert Brooke, Great Lover
…in that rich earth a richer dust concealed.(I’m flogging a dead horse w/ this one but this is the 1st time I’ve even seen this quotes feature! I just wanted to post something.)
— Rupert Brooke
Canada is a live country – live but not like the States kicking.
— Rupert Brooke
If I should die think only this of me that there’s some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.
— Rupert Brooke
If I should die think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.
— Rupert Brooke
I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation.
— Rupert Brooke
I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love’s praise The pain the calm and the astonishment Desire illimitable and silent content And all dear names men use to cheat despair For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.
— Rupert Brooke
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
— Rupert Brooke
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
— Rupert Brooke
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