Richard Crashaw Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Richard Crashaw
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“Eyes, that displaces The neighbor diamond, and out-faces That sun-shine by their own sweet graces.”
Eyes Quotes
Source: Wishes--To his (Supposed) Mistress
“A happy soul, that all the way To heaven hath a summer's day.”
Soul Quotes
Source: In Praise of Lessius' Rule of Health (l. 33)
“The conscious water saw its God and blushed. - Richard Crashaw,”
Wine and spirits Quotes
Source: Translation of His Own Epigram on the Miracle of Cana--St. John's Gospel (ch. II)
“Tresses, that wear Jewels, but to declare How much themselves more precious are.”
Hair Quotes
Source: Wishes to his (supposed) Mistress
“Days that need borrow No part of their good morrow, From a fore-spent night of sorrow.”
Day Quotes
Source: Wishes to his (Supposed) Mistress (st. 27)
“Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again. - Richard Crashaw,”
Miracles Quotes
Source: Steps to the Temple--To Our Lord upon the Water Made Wine
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
Miracles Quotes
Source: Steps to the Temple--To Our Lord upon the Water Made Wine
“Welcome! all Wonders in one sight! Eternity shut in a span. Summer in winter, day in night, Heaven in earth, and God in man. Great little one! whose all-embracing birth Lifts earth to heaven, stoops heav'n to earth!”
Christianity Quotes
“Feast of Philip & James, Apostles Come Love, come Lord, and that long day For which I languish, come away. When this dry soul those eyes shall see And drink the unseal'd source of Thee, When glory's sun faith's shades shall chase, Then for Thy veil give me Thy face.”
Christianity Quotes
“I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.”
Men and women Quotes
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