TEA QUOTES III
quotations about tea
a barbecue last night
goat meat
home grown veg
friends coming in
to share
my son kisses me
sees to my comfort
escorts me
afterwards
in darkness
to the Tea House door
VENIE HOLMGREN
The Tea House Poems
Rejecting a cup of tea is like rejecting a gesture of friendship.
JESSICA PAN
"What Americans can learn from the soothing British ritual of tea time", The Week, May 23, 2017
Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea?
RUPERT BROOKE
"The Old Vicarage, Grantchester"
Tea is the most popular beverage, after water, throughout the world.
LESTER MITSCHER
The Green Tea Book
Industrially processed tea is like a turkey twizzler, versus a proper loose leaf tea which is the roast chicken.
HENRIETTA LOVELL
"The art of the perfect cup of tea", The Telegraph, May 21, 2014
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
HENRY FIELDING
Love in Several Masques
Tea is hot and getting hotter. From iced to spiced, from austere black tea to sweetened and milky chai, from a flowery pick-me-up to a healing herbal, no other beverage has such a place in the heart of every civilization. No wonder it is the most popular beverage in the world, next to water.
SARA PERRY
The New Tea Book
Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore
I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.
JAMES BOSWELL
London Journal, 1762-1763
Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.
OKAKURA KAKUZO
The Book of Tea
Tea is like wine. Everything from the soil it's grown in to the landscape, the weather and pests can change the chemistry, taste and quality of the end product.
JANE HALL
"Ringtons are looking for a tea taster. Tea fan Jane Hall put her taste buds to the test", Chronicle Live, May 15, 2017
Tea is so important to the Russians that prisoners receive a regular ration as a basic requirement.
EMILY KEARNS
Tea: A Miscellany Steeped with Trivia, History and Recipes
The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat,
The second shatters the walls of my loneliness,
The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul
Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls.
With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores.
The fifth purifies my flesh and bone.
With the sixth I commune with the immortals.
The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome.
The fresh wind blows through my wings
As I make my way to Penglai.
LU TONG
Thanks to Imperial Censor Meng for His Gift of Freshly Picked Tea
Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.
LU YU
Classic of Tea: Origins and Rituals
The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe.
KAKUZO OKAKURA
Book of Tea
Tea beckons us to enjoy quality time with friends and loved ones, and especially to rediscover the art of relaxed conversation.
DOROTHEA JOHNSON
Tea & Etiquette
To the Chinese people, tea is like a free spirit. When tea enters the body, one is immediately filled with the nutrition of sunshine, the bright moon, the richness of the land, and the wonderment of the entire universe.
LING WANG
Tea and Chinese Culture
If you have one teapot
And can brew your tea in it
That will do quite well.
How much does he lack himself
Who must have a lot of things?
SEN NO RIKYU
attributed, Tea: A Miscellany Steeped with Trivia, History and Recipes
Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.
CHAIM POTOK
attributed, 99 Things to Do Between Here and Heaven
Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'What kind of tea?'
NEIL GAIMAN
attributed, Tea: A Miscellany Steeped with Trivia, History and Recipes