"Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone"

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Source : Geoffrey Hill (2013). “Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012”, p.129, Oxford University Press

Geoffrey Hill

#House Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Stones Quotes

“Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.”
“It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore.”
“We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.”
“Energy moves in cycles, circles, spirals, vortexes, whirls, pulsations, waves, and rhythmsâ€”rarely if ever in simple straight lines.”
“I've been thinking about you constantly since I left, wondering why the journey I'm on seemed to have led through you. I know my journey's not over yet, and that life is a winding path, but I can only hope it somehow circles back to the place I belong. That's how I think of it now. I belong with you.”
“You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.”
“Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.”
“To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.99, Univ of California Press

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