Algernon Swinburne

Quotes

• “Rhyme is the native condition of lyric verse in English; a rhymeless lyric is a maimed thing.”
• “The small dark body's Lesbian lovelinessThat held the fire eternal.”
• “Sweet Love, that art so bitter.”
• “There was a bad poet named Clough,Whom his friends all united to puff.But the public, though dull,Has not quite such a skullAs belongs to believers in Clough.”
• “I can truly say with Shelley that I have been fortunate in friendships: that I have been no less fortunate in my enemies than in my friends.”
• “God by God flits past in thunder, till His glories turn to shades; God to God bears wondering witness how His gospel flames and fades. More was each of these, yet they were, than man their servant seemed: Dead are all of these, and man survives who made them while he dreamed.”

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