10 Quotes by 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.

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.

We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.

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.

Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance...

We are spirits clad in veils.

He that would earn the Poet’s sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.

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.

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.