Careful Quote by Kathleen Raine

“I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.”

Kathleen Raine

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Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.

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Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment…

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Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing…

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Academia is a graveyard of poets.

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The work of the artist is to heal the soul.

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Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic, Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix, Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains.

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Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised.

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The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the…

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“Within the ring there lies an O, Within the O there looks an eye, In the eye there swims a sea, And in the…

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And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of…

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

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A woman who is careful with her words is a gift to all who know her.

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We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living. If we…

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