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Theodore Watts-Dunton
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“We looked o'er London, where men wither and choke, Roofed in, poor souls, renouncing stars and skies, And lore of woods and wild wind prophecies, Yea, every voice that to their fathers spoke.”
Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When hope lies dead—ah, when 'tis death to live, And wrongs remembered make the heart still bleed, Better are Sleep's kind lies for Life's blind need Than truth, if lies a little peace can give.”
Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man's knowledge, save before his fellow man, Is ignorance—his widest wisdom folly.”
Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832–1914) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Prophetic Pictures at Venice VII: New Year's Morning, 1867", p. 207.
“Yon silvery billows breaking on the beach Fall back in foam beneath the star-shine clear, The while my rhymes are murmuring in your ear A restless lore like that the billows teach; For on these sonnet-waves my soul would reach From its own depths, and rest within you, dear, As, through the billowy voices yearning here Great nature strives to find a human speech.A sonnet is a wave of melody: From heaving waters of the impassion'd soul A billow of tidal music one and whole Flows in the "octave"; then, returning free, Its ebbing surges in the "sestet" roll Back to the deeps of Life's tumultuous sea.”
Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832–1914) first seen 1881 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sonnet's Voice (A metrical lesson by the seashore)", in The Athenaeum (17 September 1881).