Eleanor Farjeon Quotes
Morning has broken Like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird.
It seems to me there are no rules, only instances; but perhaps that is because I learned no rules, and am only an instance myself.
Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.
No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.
Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.
He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them.
In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.
On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb.
Of troubles know I none, Of pleasures know I many - I rove beneath the sun, Without a single penny.
Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.
In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleet, They barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!
I want to be good...I try to be good, I do try, and to like everybody. But there are some people - some people I can't like, however much I try. I hate them - there!
