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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that...more

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How well she does everything! She reads not as if reading were the highest human activity, but as if it were the simplest possible thing, a thing even...more

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It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life-- as if life could be put off for a time-- what nonsense! ...more

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They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything aro...more

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They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the “blaze of passion” often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything aro...more

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You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

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Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge in...more

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He is on his way to her. In a moment he will leave the wooden sidewalks and vacant lots for the paved streets. The small suburban houses flash by like...more