"Before trying a novel I wrote a couple…" — James Merrill
"Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays."
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James Merrill
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13 Quotes by James Merrill
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The day is breaking someone else's heart.
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In life, there are no perfect affections.
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But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own…
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And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing…
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Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.
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Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for…
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The simplest science book is over my head.
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He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and…
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At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed.…
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I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?
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Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace…
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I see those two hearts, I'm afraid, Still. Cool here in the graveyard of good and evil, They are even…
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