Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossettiwas an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Rossetti was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth12 May 1828
thinking one-day strange
Still we say as we go,-"Strange to think by the wayWhatever there is to know,That shall we know one day.
lying fall feet
If God in his wisdom have brought closeThe day when I must die,That day by water or fire or airMy feet shall fall in the destined snareWherever my road may lie.
men years rivers
Tell me now in what hidden way isLady Flora the lovely Roman?Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais,Neither of them the fairer woman?Where is Echo, beheld of no man,Only heard on river and mere-She whose beauty was more than human?-But where are the snows of yester-year?
art difference work
Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.