"So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough."
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"Colours are what drive me most strongly."
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"one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow."
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"It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all."
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"If I lie down on my bed I must be here, But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere."
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"See the cat at love, rolling with its sweetheart, up and over, with shriek and moan. But if a person comes by, they break away, sit separate upon a fence washing their faces - and might never have met at all."
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"all tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that presses upon them. They have not been able to be entirely indifferent to this and untouched by it."
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"I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. ... I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear."
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"Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know, I do not fear the night above As I fear the friends below."
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"Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go."
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"These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant, Also it is a duty, we should smile as well as submitting To the purpose of One Above who is experimenting With various mixtures of human character which goes best, All is interesting for him it is exciting, but not for us. There I go again. Smile, smile, and get some work to do Then you will be practically unconscious without positively having to go."
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"I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican."
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"Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll With all my flesh, and keep my soul."
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"There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand."
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"My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath."
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"I am hungry to be interrupted For ever and ever amen O Person from Porlock come quickly And bring my thoughts to an end."
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"The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff."
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"Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he's dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said. Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning."
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"This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind."
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"Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door."
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