"A man had given all other bliss,
And all his worldly worth for this
To waste his whole heart in one kiss
Upon her perfect lips."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson (The Charge of the Light Brigade)

"So now I have sworn to bury
All this dead body of hate
I feel so free and so clear
By the loss of that dead weight"
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

"For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson (The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson)

"The city is built
To music, therefore never built at all,
And therefore built forever."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

"It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

"I sometimes find it half a sin,
To put to words the grief i feel,
For words like nature,half reveal,
and half conceal the soul within,"
— Alfred Lord Tennyson (In Memoriam)

"if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

"But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,
And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me,
And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d
To dwell in presence of immortal youth,
Immortal age beside immortal youth,
And all I was, in ashes.
- Tithonus"
— Alfred Lord Tennyson