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“What brings you here, Kit? No wish to offend you, but not quite the thing, you know!’
Her lip trembled. She replied with a catch in her voice: ‘I am running away!’
‘Oh, running away!’ said Mr Standen, satisfied.”
― Cotillion
Her lip trembled. She replied with a catch in her voice: ‘I am running away!’
‘Oh, running away!’ said Mr Standen, satisfied.”
― Cotillion
“One species, Salix babylonica – the weeping willow – got its name from a mistranslation of Psalm 137: ‘By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down and wept, When we remembered Zion, Upon the willows in the midst of it, We hung our harps.”
― Around the World in 80 Trees:
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“Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
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“KING (to Sakuntala): O fair lady!
The tear drop that once stood
trembling on your lower lip
-and I watched uncaring, lost in delusion-
while it still clings to your gently-curving lashes,
I shall now wipe away, my beloved,
to free myself of remorse.”
― The Loom of Time: A Selection of His Plays and Poems
The tear drop that once stood
trembling on your lower lip
-and I watched uncaring, lost in delusion-
while it still clings to your gently-curving lashes,
I shall now wipe away, my beloved,
to free myself of remorse.”
― The Loom of Time: A Selection of His Plays and Poems
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