“'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 27 (1850)

About Alfred, Lord Tennyson

1809 – 1892

English poet laureate of Queen Victoria, known for 'In Memoriam A.H.H.' (1850) and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'.

“The bearing and the training of a child is woman's wisdom.”

“A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.”

“Not once or twice in our rough island story, the path of duty was the way to glory.”

“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“But love for an object eternal and infinite feeds the mind with joy alone, and a joy which is free from all sorrow.”

“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

“Nothing gold can stay.”