"The simple lack of her is more to…" — Edward Thomas
"The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence."
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12 Quotes by Edward Thomas
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As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove…
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Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904
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NovemberÂ’s days are thirty: NovemberÂ’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on…
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The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home,…
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Yes; I remember Adlestrop- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late…
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I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God…
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I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin…
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If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to…
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I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds,Sniff them and think and sniff again and tryOnce more to think what it…
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To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square…
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How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I…
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
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Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous…
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point…
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his…
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Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
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It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're…
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become…
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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