Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers famous quotes

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  • I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

  • Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.

  • Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some divine surpriseFlash deep suffusion of celestial dyes: When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed, And the heart's secret was at once confessed?

  • We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.

  • Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

  • Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.

  • I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.

  • Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

  • You put a tuxedo on me, it's like putting a saddle on a hog.

  • If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.

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