"Strawberries that in gardens grow Are plump and juicy fine, But sweeter far as wise men know Spring from the woodland vine. No need for bowl or silver spoon, Sugar or spice or cream, Has the wild berry plucked in June Beside the trickling stream. One such to melt at the tongue's root, Confounding taste with scent, Beats a full peck of garden fruit: Which points my argument."

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Source : Robert Graves (1920). “Country Sentiment”

Robert Graves

#Summer Quotes #Wise Quotes #Spring Quotes

“I enrolled at a local college, but this time paid attention to myself - took only courses that really interested me, even if they weren't in sequence; kept out of classes with people I knew from high school, because I tended to act like the class clown around them; selected teachers by their teaching style - until I could build up my study habits. I ended up graduating with a 3.97 GPA and got into Harvard for my doctorate.”

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“How wonderful it is that we believe in modern revelation. I cannot get over the feeling that if revelation were needed anciently, when life was simple, that revelation is also needed today, when life is complex. There never was a time in the history of the earth when men needed revelation more than they need it now.”
“What is ***** to one man is the laughter of genius to another.”
“A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country and public. It is a grief-cheating device, a mode of escape and withdrawal; but, factotum as it is, though it takes the place of everything, properly speaking it represents nothing at all...”
“Change the voices in your head. Make them like you instead.”

Source : Song: Fucking Perfect
“Live now for the promise of the Infinite”
“What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.”
“Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.”

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