Andrew Marvell Quotes

So much one man can do / That does both act and know. - Andrew Marvell

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. - Andrew Marvell

Music, the mosaic of the air. - Andrew Marvell

I would / Love you ten years before the flood, / And you should if you please refuse / Till the conversion of the Jews; / My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires and more slow. - Andrew Marvell

I have a garden of my own,/ But so with roses overgrown,/ And lilies, that you would it guess/ To be a little wilderness. - Andrew Marvell

How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree. - Andrew Marvell

Here at the fountain's sliding foot, / Or at some fruit tree's mossy root, / Casting the body's vest aside, / My soul into the boughs does glide. - Andrew Marvell

He world in all doth but two nations bear, The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere. - Andrew Marvell

He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try. - Andrew Marvell

He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night. - Andrew Marvell

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