The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
E. M. FORSTERNonsense and beauty have close connections.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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