Christopher Smart Quotes
Christopher Smart (2016). “Routledge Revivals: The Collected Poems of Christopher Smart (1949): Volume One”, p.329, Routledge
For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.
Christopher Smart (2016). “Routledge Revivals: The Collected Poems of Christopher Smart (1949): Volume One”, p.293, Routledge
'A Song to David' (1763) st. 85
For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
Christopher Smart (2016). “Routledge Revivals: The Collected Poems of Christopher Smart (1949): Volume One”, p.320, Routledge
For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.
'Jubilate Agno' Fragment B, l. 30
And now the matchless deed's achieved, Determined, Dared, and Done.
'A Song to David' (1763) st. 85
Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.
Horace, Christopher Smart (1819). “The Works of Horace”, p.235
Too hard for any frog's digestion,To have his froghood call'd in question!
Christopher Smart (1791). “The poems, of the late Christopher Smart, ... Consisting of his prize poems, odes, sonnets, and fables, Latin and English translations; ...”, p.16
For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.
Christopher Smart, Karina Williamson (1990). “Selected poems”, Penguin Group USA