George Herbert
George Herbert
George Herbertwas a Welsh poet, orator and Anglican priest. Herbert's poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognized as "a pivotal figure: enormously popular, deeply and broadly influential, and arguably the most skilful and important British devotional lyricist."...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 April 1593
castles stones
Castles are Forrests of stones.
olives call-me
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
doing-nothing ill
By doing nothing we learne to do ill.
home sells fairs
Buy at a faire, but sell at home. [Buy at a fair, but sell at home.]
sweet building
Building is a sweet impoverishing.
children building marrying
Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.
want
Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
space ought
Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.
ill
Better to be blinde, then to see ill.
suffering doe ill
Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
men spares asks
Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. [Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.]
hands evil afar
Better good afarre off, then evill at hand. [Better good afar than evil at hand.]
knaves fool
Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]