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Tea Quotes and PoemsSpanning centuries, people from all walks of life have used tea as a way to express their emotions or amusement. Be entertained or be enlightened but at the very least, Enjoy!
I always fear that creation will expire before teatime. ~Sidney Smith If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~ Japanese Proverb Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. ~ Henry Fielding, "Love in Several Masques" Remember the tea kettle - it is always up to its neck in hot water, yet it still sings! ~ Author Unknown A hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; who kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and with tea welcomes the morning. ~ Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English Author Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things. ~ Okakura Kakuzo, The Book of Tea Tea for Two lyrics
Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe. ~ Rudyard Kipling I pluck the petals that are wet with dew, And drink my solitary cup in quiet. When it is empty, pour myself another, The Sun goes down and all of nature rests. ~T’ao Ch’ien, China 400 CE
As it always must come in the end, The delicious story is ripe to tell an intimate friend; Over tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, There’s never smoke without fire. ~ WH Auden, The Twelve Songs VIII
The second cup breaks my loneliness; The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs; The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration-all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores; At the fifth cup I am purified; The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals. The seventh cup-ah, but I could take no more! I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves. Where is Elysium? Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither. ~ Lu Tung (Chinese poet - T'ang Dynasty) Tea-Drinking **************** Click here for more Tea Poems.
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