3. "To be a child" -- Francis Thompson, English Poet and Writer (1859 - 1907), quotations

Quotations
from
Francis Thompson,
English Poet and Writer 
(1859 - 1907)

"All things
by
immortal power
near or far,
hiddenly
to
each other
linked
are,
that thou
canst not
stir
a flower
without
troubling
of
a star."

“An atheist
is a man
who believes
himself
to be
an accident”

“Look for me
in
the nurseries
of Heaven.”

“Know you
what it is
to be
a child?

It is to be
something
very different
from
the man
of today.

It is to have
a spirit
yet streaming
from
the waters
of baptism;
it is
to believe
in love,
to believe
in loveliness,
to believe
in belief;
it is
to be so little
that
the elves
can reach
to whisper
in your ear;
it is
to turn
pumpkins
into
coaches,
and mice
into horses,
lowness
into
loftiness,
and nothing
into everything,
for each child
has
its fairy godmother
in its
own soul.”

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