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Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss…
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There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem.
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This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses,…
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Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.
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Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that…
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In Judith Barrington's striking collection, Horses and the Human Soul, human emotions come ushered and accompanied by animal companions, especially the horses…
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All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.
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No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.
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Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but…
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Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
— Toni Morrison
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My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful.' By…
— Gerhard Richter
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Whatever happens to you, don't fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for…
— Unknown Author
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Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell.…
— Edith Sitwell
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My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'...
— Gerhard Richter
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The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
— Marcel Proust
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