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

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling 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

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

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

Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.

- Francis Thompson