“My night shall be remembered for a star That outshone all the suns of all men's days”
Source: Great Lover
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Famous Rupert Brooke Quotes
Source: The Complete Poems
Source: The Letters of Rupert Brooke
Source: The old vicarage, Grantchester
Source: The Collected Poems
Source: 1914, and other poems
Source: The Collected Poems
Source: Friends and Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914
“For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.”
“Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)
“Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?”
Source: 1914 & Other Poems
“Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)
“But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)
“.. . . would I were In Grantchester, in Grantchester!”
Source: 1914 & Other Poems
“Down the blue night the unending columns press In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow”
Source: Collected Poems
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)
“Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Love sells the proud heart's citadel to fate.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)
“A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.”
“Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.”
“Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)
“The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.”
“Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?”
Source: Collected Poems
“I thought when love for you died, I should die. It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.”
Source: Collected Poems
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)
Source: Rupert Brooke: The Collected Poems
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)
“Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)
“And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink.”
Source: Collected Poems
“I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.”
Source: Rupert Brooke: A Reappraisal and Selection from His Writings
“I have need to busy my heart with quietude.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)