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Tis distance lends enchantment to the view
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the...
The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sigh'd--till woman...
Truth ever lovely - since the world began,
The foe of tyrants and the friend of man.
Gentlemen, you must not mistake me. I admit that he is the sworn foe of our nation, and, if you will, of the whole...
Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill,
Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely...
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given.
Her sights and sounds;...
Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably...
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too...
The women there do all they ought;
The men observe the Rules of Thought.
They love the Good; they worship...
What are days for?
Days are where we live.
They come, they wake us
Time and time over.
They are to be...
Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
Source: Interview in The...
Far too many relied on the classic formula of a beginning, a muddle, and an end.
Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
Source: In The Harper Book...
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going...
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much...
One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.
Source: In W.O.W....
Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just...
I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some...