Love is the only gold.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONLove is the only gold.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONI can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThere is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe shell must break before the bird can fly.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONIn time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONKnowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONOurs is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONAnd the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONHe that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONI sometimes find it half a sin, to put to words the grief I feel, For words like nature, half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONA still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONMore things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONSilence, beautiful voice.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONIt’s better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would’ve happened if I had tried.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON