How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown’d from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow’rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose.

— Andrew Marvell

Andrew Marvell Quotes

So much one man can do that does both act and know.

— Andrew Marvell

Art indeed is long, but life is short.

— Andrew Marvell

My love is of a birth as rare As ’tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.

— Andrew Marvell

Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapped power.

— Andrew Marvell

And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

— Andrew Marvell

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

— Andrew Marvell

My mind was once the true survey Of all these meadows fresh and gay; And in the greenness of the grass Did see its hopes as in a glass.

— Andrew Marvell

See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new; For the clear region where ’twas born Round in its self encloses: And in its little globes extent, Frames as it can its native element.

— Andrew Marvell

What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.

— Andrew Marvell

Though I carry always some ill-nature about me, yet it is, I hope, no more than is in this world necessary for a preservative.

— Andrew Marvell

Music, the mosaic of the air.

— Andrew Marvell

How fit he is to sway That can so well obey.

— Andrew Marvell

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

— Andrew Marvell

Carpe Diem

Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

— Andrew Marvell

Casting the body’s vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.

— Andrew Marvell

Annihilating all that’s made, To a green thought in a green shade.

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And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time.

— Andrew Marvell

The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.

— Andrew Marvell

How could such sweet and wholesome hours be reckoned, but in herbs and flowers?

— Andrew Marvell

Twas beyond a mortal’s share To wander solitary there: Two paradises ’twere in one To live in paradise alone.

— Andrew Marvell

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