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. FORSTERIt isn’t possible to love and to part.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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