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
Philip James Bailey quotes about
spring self light
Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.
motivational art simplicity
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
brother land america
America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
stars images-of-love
Surely the stars are images of love.
ungrateful-people scoundrels obligation
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.
sunshine gold green
See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.
heaven shields azure
See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.
love-is sea poet
A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.
stars sky scripture
What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
stars war moon
Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.
night shadow
Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.
electricity all-things
Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
night lamps study
When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.
disappointment half endure
There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.