“The women at Dachau knew they were about to be gassed when they pushed back the Nazi guard who wanted to die with them, saying he must live. And sang for a little while after the doors closed.”
― Collected Poems
― Collected Poems
“In spite of her superficial independence, her fundamental need was to cling.
All her life was an attempt to disprove it; and so proved it. She was like a sea anemone -- had only to be touched once to adhere to what touched her.”
― The Magus
All her life was an attempt to disprove it; and so proved it. She was like a sea anemone -- had only to be touched once to adhere to what touched her.”
― The Magus
“if Greece were a woman so sensually provocative that I must fall physically and desperately in love with her, and at the same time so calmly aristocratic that I should never be able to approach her.”
― The Magus
― The Magus
“Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.”
― Disgrace
― Disgrace
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