On Seeming to Presume Quotes

“He inhabits now that part of himself
Which lay formerly desolate and uncolonised.

- Mark of Patmos”
― Lawrence Durrell, On Seeming to Presume

“No: Shakespear's household bills
Could never be responsible, they say,
For all the heartache and the 1000 ills
His work is heir to, poem, sonnet, play . . .
Emended readings give the real reason:
The times were out of joint, the loves, the season.

- The Critics”
― Lawrence Durrell, On Seeming to Presume

“A poem with its throat cut from ear to ear.

The Daily Mirror”
― Lawrence Durrell, On Seeming to Presume