Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Kenneth Rand

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Last updated on December 19, 2024.

Kenneth Rand (1891–1918) was an American poet. An English literature graduate of Yale University, he served as chairman of the board of the Yale Literary Magazine, served as literary editor of the Yale Courant, contributed to campus humor magazine The Yale Record and was the class poet. He was one of the poets to whom The Yale Book of Student Verse, 1910–1919 was dedicated.

May 8, 1891 - October 15, 1918

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Oh, the morrow of pain and dole Is naught while the sunlight lingers.

Kenneth Rand

And should men name me dead, I beg ye, say "Nay, he but wearied here, and went away.

Kenneth Rand

Yet earth has never child she may not slay, Nor sea a lover that she cannot kill.

Kenneth Rand

The beauty that men seek is half a dream-- Where'er we wander, yet it lies afar; It touches with its wand a setting star, It stirs the ripple of an ebbing stream. And though we run beyond the dawning gleam, Or kneel to worship at an altar bright, We may not know the soul of its delight, Or more than marvel at its palest beam.

Kenneth Rand

God is a creed outworn, Ill-wrought from a mirage fair, And life is an image pale That faces a sunless morn.

Kenneth Rand

Ah, love, 'tis a sorrowful land!

Kenneth Rand

Love is a jeering mime.

Kenneth Rand

Let me leap naked through life's testing flame, And bear to lose, and yet endure to win.

Kenneth Rand