Arthur Quote by James Merrill

“Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.”

James Merrill

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The day is breaking someone else's heart.

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I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?

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“Freedom to be oneself is all very well; the greater freedom is not to be oneself.”

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“The eggshell of appearance split.”

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Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

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