Francis Thompson Quotes

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul. - Francis Thompson

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I do not believe that Nature has a heart; and I suspect that, like many another beauty, she has been credited with a heart because of her face. - Francis Thompson

Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet./ And all the things are made young with young desires. - Francis Thompson

The storm-damaged areas will recover much quicker if the regions that are already up and running do better and benefit from revitalization... It's more important than ever before that the rest of the state -- Monroe, Shreveport, Alexandria and the agriculture areas -- can thrive so as to lift up the rest of the state. - Francis Thompson