"I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert...
✒️ #RobertBridges, English poet and British Poet Laureate (1913-30), was #BOTD 23 October 1844. #Poetry #Literature
“When Death to either shall come—
I pray it be first to me.”
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert...
✒️ #RobertBridges, English poet (Testament of beauty) and British Poet Laureate (1913-30), #DOTD 21 April 1930. #Poetry #Literature
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From Simon Nowell-Smith's article The Phonotypes Of Robert Bridges
From Simon Nowell-Smith's article The Phonotypes Of Robert Bridges
From AF Johnson's article Fat Faces: Their History, Forms & Use
An extended selection from Alphabet & Image issue 5, published September 1947 (tbc) #SecondHandBookshopFinds #AlphabetAndImage #Typography #RobertBridges #EdwardJohnston
« Scatter the clouds that hide
The face of heaven, and show
Where sweet peace doth abide,
Where Truth and Beauty grow. »
― Robert Bridges
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#quotes #RobertBridges #truth #beauty #peace #heaven
« Verily by Beauty it is that we come at Wisdom,
yet not by Reason at Beauty. »
― Robert Bridges
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#quotes #RobertBridges #reason #beauty #wisdom
« Scatter the clouds that hide
The face of heaven, and show
Where sweet peace doth abide,
Where Truth and Beauty grow. »
― Robert Bridges
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#quotes #RobertBridges #beauty #truth #DivineInspiration
« Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God
and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation,
fashioning her love-realm in the mind of man,
attempteth every mortal child with influences
of her… »
― Robert Bridges
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#quotes #RobertBridges #beauty
