"I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though I greatly delight In these and the water lilies, That which sets me nighest to weeping Is the rose and white colour of the smooth flag-stones, And the pale yellow grasses Among them."

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Source : Richard Aldington (1928). “Collected poems”

Richard Aldington

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“A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.”

Source : Clifton Fadiman, Sam Jay Aaron, Darlene Geis (1977). “Wine Buyers Guide”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated
“Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.”
“Insecurity prevents young artists from 'flying' and older artists from being 'down to earth.' Young artists should work on their confidence and the older ones on their humility.”
“We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?”
“I swear by the mighty power of Amon-Ra, whose anger can shatter the world, and by the dread power of Set, that I will never betray my trust as High Priest of Karnak.”
“When I go to the line I'm thinking 'All net.' When I don't think that, I'm likely to miss.”
“The coming nanometer age can, therefore, also be called the age of interdisciplinarity.”

Source : "Nishina memorial lectures: creators of modern physics" by Nishina Memorial Foundation, Springer, (p. 506), 2008.
“It's really quite a situation. It's ridiculous. I make $200,000, $300,000 a night. For years I was working little dives, and if I got $700 a week, I'd say, "Wow, I'm really cooking.”

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