quotable quotes: alfred lord tennyson

I love Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Rhyming? Rhythm? Beautiful language, numerous aphorisms? I say, to hell with Whitman and his American "poetry". British form for the win.

Break, break, break,

At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!

But the tender grace of a day that is dead

Will never come back to me.

---Break break break

The world was never made;

It will change, but it will not fade.

So let the wind range;

For even and morn

Ever will be

Thro’ eternity.

Nothing was born;

Nothing will die;

All things will change.

---Nothing Will Die

O well for him whose will is strong!

He suffers, but he will not suffer long;

He suffers, but he cannot suffer wrong...

---Will

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are---

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

---Ulysses