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This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the...more

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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so t...more

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Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

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It is no use trying to sum people up.

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For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there mustbe between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard ga...more

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Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each...more

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Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

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Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

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The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

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To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and destroy more surely ...more

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For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest expressions do, since no...more

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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means sig...more

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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

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I use my friends rather as giglamps : There's another field I see: by your light. Over there's a hill. I widen my landscape.