Frases de Philip James Bailey

Philip James Bailey fue un poeta inglés, conocido por su poema Festus.

✵ 22. abril 1816 – 6. noviembre 1902
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Philip James Bailey Frases y Citas

“El arte es la naturaleza del hombre; la naturaleza es el arte de Dios.”

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En Festus
Fuente: Bailey, Philip James. Festus: A Poem (2001). Wildside Press. ISBN 9781434414892. [ref. incompleta/falta página]

“Los poetas son todos los que aman, los que sienten grandes verdades, Y diles; Y la verdad de las verdades es el amor. El mal y el bien son la mano derecha de Dios y la izquierda.”

En Festus
Fuente: Bailey, Philip James. Festus: A Poem (2001). Wildside Press. ISBN 9781434414892. [ref. incompleta/falta página]

Philip James Bailey: Frases en inglés

“We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.”

Scene V, A Country Town
Festus (1839)
Contexto: We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Life's but a means unto an end; that end
Beginning, mean, and end to all things, — God.
The dead have all the glory of the world.

“I cannot be content with less than heaven;
Living, and comprehensive of all life.”

Festus (1839)
Contexto: I cannot be content with less than heaven;
Living, and comprehensive of all life.
Thee, universal heaven, celestial all;
Thee, sacred seat of intellective time;
Field of the soul's best wisdom: home of truth,
Star-throned.

“Men might be better if we better deemed
Of them. The worst way to improve the world
Is to condemn it.”

Scene IV, A Mountain; Sunrise. Compare: "The surest plan to make a man / Is to think him so", J. R. Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, ii. St. 9
Festus (1839)

“Who never doubted never half believed
Where doubt there truth is—'t is her shadow.”

Scene V, A Country Town; comparable to Alfred, Lord Tennyson "There lives more faith in honest doubt / Believe me, than in half the creeds."
Festus (1839)

“Music tells no truths.”

Scene XI, A Village Feast
Festus (1839)