Philip James Bailey
Philip James Bailey
Philip James Baileywas an English Spasmodic poet, best known as the author of Festus...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 April 1816
life mean ends
Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
love beautiful brave
None but the brave and beautiful can love.
life life-death awe
Life hath more awe than death.
air imagination mind
Imagination is the air of mind.
god soul
Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
men thinking kind-deeds
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
love art heart
Love is the art of hearts, and heart or arts.
light poet worms
For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.