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“I grew up in the arms of the gods.”
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“Could beauty be caught and hurt
they had done her to death with their sneers
in ages and ages past,
could beauty be sacrificed
for a thrust of a sword,
for a piece of thin money
tossed up to fall half alloy—
then beauty were dead
long, long before we saw her face.”
― Collected Poems, 1912-1944
they had done her to death with their sneers
in ages and ages past,
could beauty be sacrificed
for a thrust of a sword,
for a piece of thin money
tossed up to fall half alloy—
then beauty were dead
long, long before we saw her face.”
― Collected Poems, 1912-1944
“There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.”
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“To be a heretic to-day is almost a human obligation.”
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“Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker’s.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
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