John Vance Cheney Quotes & Sayings

The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest. — John Vance Cheney

The soul would have no rainbow, had the eyes no tears. — John Vance Cheney

The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives; Over and over To the lowly clover He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too). He will be lisping and pledging to you. — John Vance Cheney

I question not if thrushes sing,
If roses load the air;
Beyond my heart I need not reach
When all is summer there. — John Vance Cheney

No command of art,
No toil, can help you hear;
Earth's minstrelsy falls clear
But on the listening heart. — John Vance Cheney

If so men's memories not a monument be,
None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone,
Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown.
Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee? — John Vance Cheney

A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose. — John Vance Cheney

Holding occasion by the hand, Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower, Waiving what none can understand, I make mine hour. — John Vance Cheney

I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams. — John Vance Cheney

The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart. — John Vance Cheney