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The Noblest form of Affection

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The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak ...more

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

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With slouch and swing around the ringWe trod the Fools’ Parade!We did not care: we knew we wereThe Devils’ Own Brigade:And shaven head and feet of lea...more

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She lives the poetry she cannot write.

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You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

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Albeit nurtured in democracy, And liking best that state republican Where every man is Kinglike and no manIs crowned above his fellows, yet I see,Spit...more

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Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee:The wine of life is spilt upon ...more

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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

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Deliver me from my disciples!

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She lives in the poetry she cannot write.

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Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.

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Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the sec...more