Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance. Christopher Pearse Cranch More Quotes by Christopher Pearse Cranch More Quotes From Christopher Pearse Cranch Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught. Christopher Pearse Cranch speech soul feelings He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages. Christopher Pearse Cranch poetry names writing Beautiful and rare Aurora, Christopher Pearse Cranch beautiful heaven art No night so wild but brings the constant sun With love and power untold; No time so dark but through its woof there run Some blessed threads of gold. Christopher Pearse Cranch blessed running love December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond summer sympathies ensnared; Nor from the perfect circle of the year Can even winter's crystal gems be spared. Christopher Pearse Cranch summer winter years O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell. Christopher Pearse Cranch light wisdom needs If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, This is Spring. Christopher Pearse Cranch air spring snow We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen. Christopher Pearse Cranch veils failure men I wonder now if you ever remember... Whether your June is all turned to December... Gone are those winters of chats and of dances... Gone the aroma of life's young romances... Ah! well enough, as you dance on in joyance... Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance. Christopher Pearse Cranch fashion money winter But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful season and places which gave them being. Here the painter feels how small things may suggest the greater - the drop of water, image the firmament. Christopher Pearse Cranch summer winter beautiful We are spirits clad in veils. Christopher Pearse Cranch philosophical veils philosophy I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting. Christopher Pearse Cranch landscape-painting calling men
