Top 30 Rupert Brooke Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.”

— Rupert Brooke

2. “Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.”

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3. “If I should die, think only this of me: that there’s some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.”

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4. “I have need to busy my heart with quietude.”

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5. “Youth is stranger than fiction.”

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6. “And I shall find some girl perhaps, and a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true, and I dare say she will do.”

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7. “Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak.”

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8. “Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Love sells the proud heart’s citadel to fate.”

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9. “But there’s wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.”

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10. “Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?”

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11. “Hearts at peace, under an English heaven.”

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12. “Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn’t there, but the need is very great.”

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13. “And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish.”

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14. “Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.”

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15. “One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in Liquidity.”

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16. “I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.”

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17. “It’s all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it’s details, it’s great fun. And – apart from the tragedy – I’ve never felt happier or better in my life than in those days in Belgium.”

— Rupert Brooke

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18. “Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful.”

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19. “For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.”

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20. “Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend!”

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21. “Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There’s none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.”

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22. “All the little emptiness of love!”

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23. “Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?”

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24. “A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out all the years.”

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25. “The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.”

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26. “Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.”

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27. “There’s little comfort in the wise.”

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28. “They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they ride the calm mid-heaven, as these, In wise majestic melancholy train, And watch the moon, and the still-raging seas, And men, coming and going on the earth.”

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29. “Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There’s none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age; and those who would have been, Their sons, they gave, their immortality.”

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30. “Canada is a live country – live, but not, like the States, kicking.”

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31. “Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.”

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32. “Love is a flame; we have beaconed the world’s night.”

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