Quote#Pain
Nothing begins, and nothing ends
Quote byFrancis Thompson · 1859–1907
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Daisy (1893), st. 15..
English (original)
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan, For we are born in other's pain, And perish in our own.
— Francis Thompson
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Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
Thou canst not stir a flower / Without troubling of a star.
O GAIN that lurk’st ungainèd in all gain! O love we just fall short of in all love! O height that in all heights art still above! O beauty that dost leave all beauty pain! Thou unpossessed that mak’st possession vain,
The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.
The hills look over on the South, And Southward dreams the sea; And with the sea-breeze hand in hand, Came innocence and she.
The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine, Moves all the labouring surges of the world.