James Kenneth Stephen Professions : Poet Born : February 25, 1859 Died : February 3, 1892 Browse All Authors Top 10 quotes by James Kenneth Stephen Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an unmelodious verse: When the world shall cease to wonder At the genius of an Ass, And a boy's eccentric blunder Shall not bring success to pass: When mankind shall be delivered From the clash of magazines, And the inkstand shall be shivered Into countless smithereens: When there stands a muzzled stripling, Mute, beside a muzzled bore: When the Rudyards cease from Kipling And the Haggards Ride no more. James Kenneth Stephen eccentric boys world In short, if your body or mind Or your soul or your purse come to grief, You need only get drunk, and you'll find Complete and immediate relief. James Kenneth Stephen drunk grief soul The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; James Kenneth Stephen dust sorrow heart I saw God! Do you doubt it? James Kenneth Stephen god men hands Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose moves at the speed of the alphabet, and must be consecutive and grammatical and word-perfect. Prose cannot gesticulate. Speech can sometimes do nothing more. James Kenneth Stephen light perfect moving Birthdays? yes, in a general way; James Kenneth Stephen birthday men night Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time. James Kenneth Stephen republic sublime west There were two good fellows I used to know. --How distant it all appears! We played together in football weather, And messed together for years: Now one of them's wed, and the other's dead So long that he's hardly missed Save by us, who messed with him years ago: But we're all in the old School List. James Kenneth Stephen old-school football two To see Good Tennis! What divine joy Can fill our leisure, or our minds employ? Let other people play at other things; The King of Games is still the Game of Kings. James Kenneth Stephen kings games play straightway like a bell James Kenneth Stephen bells sea lows Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
