“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.” — Christina Rossetti | V2Melody

“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.”

A traditional proverb sometimes attributed to Rossetti without a secure primary source · Conversation, commonly attributed

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About Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti

5 December 1830–29 December 1894

To read Christina Rossetti is to enter a world of exquisite tension, a realm where the sacred and the sensual wage a quiet but ferocious war. She is the poet of renunciation who wrote some of the most sensuous verse in the English language, the devout Anglo-Catholic who filled her pages with goblin fruits that drip…

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Poems by Christina Rossetti

More remarks by Christina Rossetti

“You see, all too late I am being sucked into the Dantesque vortex.”

A playful description of her growing absorption in Dante · Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 19 July 1892

“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember me and be sad.”

This wording is widely circulated as a Rossetti quotation but is also associated with her poem Remember · Letter, commonly attributed

“So much of my heart is yours that you may be sure of my sympathy.”

A simple statement of the enduring closeness between brother and sister · Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 2 January 1893