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“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
― The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
― Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
― Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Classics and the Western Canon
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