Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Realf

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet Richard Realf.

Last updated on November 6, 2024.

Richard Realf was a poet who lived in many places throughout the United States, and whose work was informed by these travels. An obituary called him "a singularly unhappy man".

American - Poet | June 14, 1832 - October 28, 1878

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Back of the sound broods the silence, back of the gift stands the giving; Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving.

Richard Realf

Great are the symbols of Being, But that which is symboled is greater; Vast the create and beheld, But vaster the Inward Creator.

Richard Realf

Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer; Rarer is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret that clasps it rarer; Sweet the exultance of song, but the strain that precedes it is sweeter And never was poem yet writ, but the meaning outmastered the meter.

Richard Realf

Into the statue that breathes, the soul of the sculptor is bidden.

Richard Realf

Never a daisy that grows, but a mystery guideth the growing; Never a river that flows, but a majesty scepters the flowing.

Richard Realf