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
love life-is without-love
Life is less than nothing without love.
mistake wind rivers
Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds.
beauty beautiful men
The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.
writing heart mind
Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
music
Music tells no truths.
suicide hands makers
We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand.
sadness
The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
beautiful sunset bed
The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!
death war blood
Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.
ivy crumbling decay
For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
hero masters valet
As the master so the valet.
hate wrath sin
Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.
heart fate
The heart is its own Fate.
country heart england
England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!