Andrew Marvell Quotes

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No creature loves an empty space;
Their bodies measure out their place.

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She with her eyes my heart does bind,
She with her voice might captivate my mind.

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Orange bright,
Like golden lamps in a green light.

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Choosing each stone, and poising every weight,
Trying the measures of the breadth and height;
Here pulling down, and there erecting new,
Founding a firm state by proportions true.

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How should I avoid to be her slave,
Whose subtle art invisibly can wreath
My fetters of the very air I breath?

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He is translation's thief that addeth more,
As much as he that taketh from the store
Of the first author.

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Where the remote Bermudas ride,
In th' ocean's bosom unespied.

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Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green glade... Such was that happy garden-state,...

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To make a bank was a great plot of state;
Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.

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Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

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So architects do square and hew,
Green trees that in the forest grew.

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He nothing common did or mean
Upon that memorable scene:
But with his keener eye
The axe's edge did try:
Nor called the gods with vulgar spite
To vindicate his helpless right,
But bowed his comely head,
Down as upon a bed.
On the execution of charles i

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Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less
Withdraws into its happiness;
The mind, that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find;
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other worlds, and other seas;
Annihilating all that's made
To a green thought in a green shade.

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But now the salmon-fishers moist
Their leathern boats begin to hoist;
And, like Antipodes in shoes,
Have shod their heads in their canoes.
How tortoise-like, but not so slow,
These rational amphibii go!

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The world in all doth but two nations bear —
The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.

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As lines, so loves oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet. Therefore the love which us doth bind But fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars.

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And all the way, to guide their chime,
With falling oars they kept the time.

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The gods, that mortal beauty chase,
Still in a tree did end their race.
Apollo hunted Daphne so,
Only that she might laurel grow.
And Pan did after Syrinx speed,
Not as a nymph, but for a reed.

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And now the Irish are ashamed
To see themselves in one year tamed:
So much one man can do,
That does both act and know.

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My love is of a birth as rare
As 'tis for object strange and high;
It was begotten by Despair
Upon Impossibility.

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