A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
E. M. FORSTERIt isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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