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“That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?” quote by Gerard Manley Hopkins — Download Open image

“That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?”

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No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

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Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.

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The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

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I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.

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When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.

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All the world is full of inscapeand chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

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