Lines from Literature

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He turned his lips to hers
    and with a sigh
Called back the tangles
    of her wandering hair.
                        ~Don Juan, i, 170

 

Delay sets everything to rights.
                        ~Ennius

 

"And poetry, as "Q" said, is the stuff poets have written."
                        ~Elizabeth Drew

 

So fades a summer cloud.
                        ~Kibworth gravestone 11/2/73

 

The afternoon knows
what the morning never suspected.
                        ~Swedish Proverb

 

"Life is one big wait."
                        ~friend Bruce Anderson 2/18/73
                          on train from London to Countesthorpe
                           

 

So when you or I are made
A fable, song, or fleeting shade;
All love, all liking, all delight
Lies drown'd with us in endless night
                        ~E Drew's Poetry and the Poet

 

And I know my song before I start singing
                        ~B.Dylan

 

Poems are from the soul. It is body and soul that I seek and all the passion that both can summon and come forth from my touch.
~knightwander for whom Giver of Dreams was written for.

 

“Truth is like poetry. And most people fucking hate poetry.” The Big Short

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Just some random quotes

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