“The bliss of heaven, which many have attained here, is the synthesis of…” — Coventry Patmore

“The bliss of heaven, which many have attained here, is the synthesis of absolute content and infinite desire.”

Defining fulfilment as the coexistence of complete contentment and limitless desire · The Rod, the Root, and the Flower, Aurea Dicta XCII

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Coventry Patmore

About Coventry Patmore

23 July 1823–26 November 1896

Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was born on 23 July 1823 at Woodford, then a village in Essex on the eastern edge of London, and died on 26 November 1896 at Lymington in Hampshire. During his lifetime he became one of the most distinctive, admired, mocked, and misunderstood English poets of the Victorian age. His…

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