Andrew Marvell Quotes
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He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.
— Andrew Marvell
How fit he is to sway That can so well obey.
— Andrew Marvell
Twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone.
— Andrew Marvell
Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.
— Andrew Marvell
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
— Andrew Marvell
My vegetable love will growVaster than empires, and more slow. — Andrew Marvell
Had we but world enough, and time
— Andrew Marvell
The same arts that did gainA power, must it maintain. — Andrew Marvell
Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns
— Andrew Marvell
My love is of a birth as rareAs 'tis, for object, strange and high;
It was begotten by Despair
Upon Impossibility. — Andrew Marvell
My mind was once the true survey Of all these meadows fresh and gay; And in the greenness of the grass Did see its hopes as in a glass.
— Andrew Marvell
Music, the mosaic of the air
— Andrew Marvell
And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
— Andrew Marvell
Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall ...
— Andrew Marvell
I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.
— Andrew Marvell
Therefore the love which us doth bind,But fate so enviously debars,
Is the conjunction of the mind,
And opposition of the stars. — Andrew Marvell
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
— Andrew Marvell
Art indeed is long, but life is short.
— Andrew Marvell
As lines, so loves oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.
— Andrew Marvell
Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.
— Andrew Marvell
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
— Andrew Marvell
Though I carry always some ill-nature about me, yet it is, I hope, no more than is in this world necessary for a preservative.
— Andrew Marvell
So much one man can do that does both act and know.
— Andrew Marvell
And here face down beneath the sunAnd here upon earth's noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night — Archibald MacLeish
What wondrous life in this I leadRipe apples drop about my head — Andrew Marvell
Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapped power.
— Andrew Marvell
The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
— Andrew Marvell
Had it lived long, is would have beenLilies without, roses within. — Andrew Marvell
But Fate does iron wedges drive,And always crowds itself betwixt. — Andrew Marvell
