„Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone,
But as the meaning of all things that are.“
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The House of Life
The House of Life (1870—1881), Heart's Compass.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Geburtstag: 12. Mai 1828
Todesdatum: 9. April 1882
Andere Namen: דנטה גבריאל רוסטי, டேன்டி கெய்பிரியல் ரோசட்டி, دانته قابرییل روستی, Данте Габриел Росети
Dante Gabriel Rossetti war ein britischer Dichter und Maler, der in beiden Künsten gleichermaßen begabt war. Er war wegen seiner dominierenden und charismatischen Persönlichkeit die treibende Kraft der Präraffaeliten, die die Reform der britischen Kunst als Ziel hatten. Er hielt wenig von Konventionen und wurde in den letzten Lebensjahren ein exzentrischer Sonderling.
Zitate Dante Gabriel Rossetti
„Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone,
„Unto the furthest flood-brim look with me;
Then reach on with thy thought till it be drown'd.
Miles and miles distant though the last line be,
And though thy soul sail leagues and leagues beyond,—
Still, leagues beyond those leagues, there is more sea.“
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Choice, Context: Nay, come up hither. From this wave-wash'd mound
Unto the furthest flood-brim look with me;
Then reach on with thy thought till it be drown'd.
Miles and miles distant though the last line be,
And though thy soul sail leagues and leagues beyond,—
Still, leagues beyond those leagues, there is more sea.
„Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell.“
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The House of Life
The House of Life (1870—1881), A Superscription. Compare: "My name is might have been; my name is never was; my name's forgotten", Courtney Love (with Hole), "Celebrity Skin".
„From the fix'd place of Heaven she saw
Time like a pulse shake fierce
Through all the worlds. Her gaze still strove
Within the gulf to pierce
Its path; and now she spoke as when
The stars sang in their spheres.“
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Blessed Damozel http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/715.html (1850)
„If God in his wisdom have brought close
The day when I must die,
That day by water or fire or air
My feet shall fall in the destined snare
Wherever my road may lie.“
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The King's Tragedy, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„Still we say as we go,—
"Strange to think by the way
Whatever there is to know,
That shall we know one day."“
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Cloud Confines, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„Now kiss, and think that there are really those,
My own high-bosom'd beauty, who increase
Vain gold, vain lore, and yet might choose our way!
Through many years they toil; then on a day
They die not, — for their life was death, — but cease;
And round their narrow lips the mould falls close.“
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Choice
„We two will stand beside that shrine,
Occult, withheld, untrod,
Whose lamps are stirr'd continually
With prayer sent up to God;
And see our old prayers, granted, melt
Each like a little cloud.“
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Blessed Damozel http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/715.html (1850)
„Gather a shell from the strewn beach
And listen at its lips: they sigh
The same desire and mystery,
The echo of the whole sea's speech.“
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Sea-Limits, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "I send thee a shell from the ocean-beach; But listen thou well, for my shell hath speech. Hold to thine ear / And plain thou'lt hear / Tales of ships", Charles Henry Webb, With a Nantucket Shell; The hollow sea-shell, which for years hath stood / On dusty shelves, when held against the ear / Proclaims its stormy parent, and we hear / The faint, far murmur of the breaking flood. / We hear the sea. The Sea? It is the blood / In our own veins, impetuous and near", Eugene Lee-Hamilton, Sonnet. Sea-shell Murmurs'.
„We two will lie i' the shadow of
That living mystic tree
Within whose secret growth the Dove
Is sometimes felt to be,
While every leaf that His plumes touch
Saith His Name audibly.“
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Blessed Damozel http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/715.html (1850)
„Even as the moon grows queenlier in mid-space
When the sky darkens, and her cloud-rapt car
Thrills with intenser radiance from afar,—
So lambent, lady, beams thy sovereign grace
When the drear soul desires thee.“
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The House of Life
The House of Life (1870—1881), Gracious Moonlight.
„Around her, lovers, newly met
'Mid deathless love's acclaims,
Spoke evermore among themselves
Their heart-remember'd names;
And the souls mounting up to God
Went by her like thin flames.“
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Blessed Damozel http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/715.html (1850), Stanza 7.
„The blessed damozel lean'd out
From the gold bar of Heaven;
Her eyes were deeper than the depth
Of waters still'd at even;
She had three lilies in her hand,
And the stars in her hair were seven.“
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Blessed Damozel http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/715.html (1850), Stanza 1.
„A Sonnet is a moment's monument,—
Memorial from the Soul's eternity
To one dead deathless hour.“
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The House of Life
The House of Life (1870—1881), Introductory Sonnet.
„The sun was gone now; the curl'd moon
Was like a little feather
Fluttering far down the gulf; and now
She spoke through the still weather.
Her voice was like the voice the stars
Had when they sang together.“
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Blessed Damozel http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/715.html (1850)
„Beauty like hers is genius.“
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The House of Life
The House of Life (1870—1881), Genius in Beauty.
