Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame. With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank, And dipped its cup in the purpurate shine When the eastern conduits ran with wine.

Francis Thompson's Popular Quotes

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.

- Francis Thompson

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.

- Francis Thompson

But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities u…

- Francis Thompson

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

- Francis Thompson

Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

- Francis Thompson

In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.

- Francis Thompson

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

- Francis Thompson

Little Jesus, was Thou shy Once, and just so small as I? And what did it feel like to be Out of Heaven, and just like me?

- Francis Thompson

Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.

- Francis Thompson