"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'..." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "I am a part of all that I have met." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "I will drink life to the lees." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "Sometimes the heart sees what's invisible to the eye." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?" -Alfred Lord Tennyson "The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die" -Alfred Lord Tennyson "The quiet sense of something lost" -Alfred Lord Tennyson "There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul" -Alfred Lord Tennyson "I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "The shell must break before the bird can fly." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;" And the white rose weeps, "She is late;" The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear;" And the lily whispers, "I wait." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "So runs my dream, but what am I? An infant crying in the night An infant crying for the light And with no language but a cry." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "For always roaming with a hungry heart." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "So sad, so fresh the days that are no more." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "Life is brief but love is LONG ." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "So I find every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet, The field, the chamber, and the street, For all is dark where thou art not" -Alfred Lord Tennyson "Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature whom I found so fair I trust he lives in Thee and there I find him worthier to be loved." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight" -Alfred Lord Tennyson "Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within," -Alfred Lord Tennyson "If you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "Follow the deer? Follow the Christ the King. Live pure, speak true,right wrong, Follow the King-- Else, wherefore born?" -Alfred Lord Tennyson "Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "Love is the only gold." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "Shall love be blamed for want of faith?" -Alfred Lord Tennyson "I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move." -Alfred Lord Tennyson "The mirror crack'd from side to side "The curse has come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott" -Alfred Lord Tennyson "And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." -Alfred Lord Tennyson
