Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of… - Coventry Patmore

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Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.

Coventry Patmore

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Coventry Kearsey Deighton Patmore (July 23, 1823 – November 26, 1896) was an English poet and critic.

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Birth Name: Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore

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Nothingness is capacity, and night the opportunity of light.

Science is a line, art a superficies, and life, or the knowledge of God, a solid.

Having my law the seventh time disobey'd,
I struck him, and dismiss'd
With hard words and unkiss'd,
—His Mother, who was patient, being dead.

Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance. - Coventry Patmore

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