January 2012
30 posts
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“When I put down my pen I meant to put away my memories with it. They had had...”
– L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between
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“I would meet you now
and I would wish this scar
to have been given with
all...”
– Michael Ondaatje, ‘The Time Around Scars’
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“Painting is mute poetry, and poetry a speaking picture.”
– Simonides
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“With a gasp
She pants upon the passionate lips that ache
With the red drain of...”
– Algernon Charles Swinburne, Sonnet for a Picture
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“There is a budding morrow in midnight.”
– John Keats
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“Written words; they seem to talk to you as if they were intelligent, but if you...”
– Homer, Phaedrus
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“How I long for the time to ripen fully, and the spring to come again after this...”
– Sylvia Plath, Journals
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“All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams...”
– William Shakespeare, Sonnet XLIII
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“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her...”
– Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
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“It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the...”
– Joseph Conrad, The Shadow-Line
“It’s impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can...”
– Margaret Atwood,The Handmaid’s Tale
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“To bleed from many wounds may be more serious than to bleed from one, but the...”
– L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between
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“Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and...”
– Sylvia Plath, Journals
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“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
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“The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till...”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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“For the first time in my innocent and confined life, I sensed in myself a...”
– Angela Carter
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“I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my...”
– W.B. Yeats, ‘The Wind Among The Reeds’
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“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each...”
– A. A. Milne
“Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly...”
– John Keats
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“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good...”
– William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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“It’s the only period of my life in which I attempted to keep a diary. No, not...”
– Joseph Conrad, The Shadow-Line
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“Let me never go blind, or get shut off from the agony of learning, the horrible...”
– Sylvia Plath, Journals
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“Last year is dead, they seem to say,
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.”
– Philip Larkin, ‘The Trees’ 