Quotes by Christina G. Rossetti

“For there is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather, to cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.”

“When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me”

“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.”

“I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, youd say, Where? What? and turn away.”

“Silence is more musical than any song.”

“Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun”

“My heart is like a singing bird.”

“Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts: and no one to thank”

“Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.”

“Love came down at Christmas; love all lovely, love divine; love was born at Christmas, stars and angels gave the sign.”

“From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.”

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

“I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever”

“Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people dont listen, and if one plays bad music people dont talk.”

“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”

“I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more”

“I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on...”

One by one the flowers close Lily and dewy rose Shutting their tender petals from the moon.