John Ruskin 1819-1900

Poems (4)

Trust Thou Thy Love
Night
The Hills Of Carrara
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Quotes (4)

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself—my disgust at her barbarity—clumsiness—darkness—bitter mockery of herself—is the most desolating.
John Ruskin (1819-F1900), British art critic, author. Letter, April 3, 1871. quoted in Ruskin Today, sct. 115, ed. Kenneth Clark (1964).
Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
John Ruskin (1819-1900), British art critic, author. letter, Jan. 28, 1852, to his father. quoted in Ruskin Today, sct. 36, ed. Kenneth Clark (1964).
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
John Ruskin (1819-1900), British art critic, author. Sesame and Lilies, preface (1865).
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