“Holy time in eternity holy eternity in time holy the clocks in space holy the fourth dimension holy the fifth International holy the Angel in Moloch!
Holy the sea holy the desert holy the railroad holy the locomotive holy the visions holy the hallucinations holy the miracles holy the eyeball holy the abyss!
Holy forgiveness! mercy! charity! faith! Holy! Ours! bodies! suffering! magnanimity!
Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!”
― Collected Poems 1947-1997
Holy the sea holy the desert holy the railroad holy the locomotive holy the visions holy the hallucinations holy the miracles holy the eyeball holy the abyss!
Holy forgiveness! mercy! charity! faith! Holy! Ours! bodies! suffering! magnanimity!
Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!”
― Collected Poems 1947-1997
“Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.”
― Night Film
― Night Film
“Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“He’s got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap.”
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
“Nothing is every quiet, except for fools.”
― Cry, the Beloved Country
― Cry, the Beloved Country
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