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“A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
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“Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!”
― The Time Machine
― The Time Machine
“Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.”
― The Midwich Cuckoos
― The Midwich Cuckoos
“It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.”
― Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer
― Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer
“The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug outs all day, all night, the most execrable sights on earth. In poetry we call them the most glorious.”
― The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
― The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
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