Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
"Thomas Gray" was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar and professor at University of Cambridge/Cambridge University. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous poets! More Thomas Gray on Wikipedia.Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
There sit the sainted sage, the bard divine, / The few, whom genius gave to shine / Through every unborn age, and undiscovered clime.
Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes; / Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.
What female heart can gold despise? / What cat's averse to fish?
Full many a gem of purest ray sereneThe dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
He passed the flaming bounds of space and time: / The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, / Where angels tremble while they gaze, / He saw; but blasted with excess of light, / Closed his eyes in endless night.
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise.
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