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“Beating soul and breathing blood.”
― Moscow in the Plague Year: Poems
― Moscow in the Plague Year: Poems
“I know I’m not myself with people, but am I myself when alone? That seems unlikely, too.”
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“The most precious thing is vitality – not in any sinister Lawrentian sense, but just the will + energy + appetite to do what one wants to do + not to be ‘sunk’ by disappointments. Aristotle is right: happiness is not to be aimed at; it is a by-product of activity aimed at.”
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“For I have time for nothing
But the endeavour to balance myself
Upon a broken world.”
― The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell
But the endeavour to balance myself
Upon a broken world.”
― The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell
“Did I feel all that? So much? As sounds decays into inadudibility, euphoria decays into indifference, and that is always unexpected, the way exalted feelings are weakened, undone by time.”
― The Volcano Lover
― The Volcano Lover
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