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Famous Christopher Smart Quotes
“Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small- clothes and looks as if he smelt it.”
“And now the matchless deed's achieved, Determined, Dared, and Done.”
“Too hard for any frog's digestion,To have his froghood call'd in question!”
Source: The poems, of the late Christopher Smart, ... Consisting of his prize poems, odes, sonnets, and fables, Latin and English translations; ...
“Sweet the young muse with love intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence.”
Source: Routledge Revivals: The Collected Poems of Christopher Smart (1949): Volume One
“For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.”
Source: Routledge Revivals: The Collected Poems of Christopher Smart (1949): Volume One
“Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.”
Source: The Works of Horace
“For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.”
“For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.”
Source: Selected poems
“For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.”
Source: Routledge Revivals: The Collected Poems of Christopher Smart (1949): Volume One