"How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able to turn round in the grave and to say It is over."

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Source : Edward Thomas (2008). “The Annotated Collected Poems”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

Edward Thomas

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“Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar.”
“Storytelling is what lights my fire.”
“An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.”

Source : 1924 Looking Forward And Others, 'The Hopeful Pessimist'.
“One reason (among many) that women may well take over the world of "virtual enterprises" is that they seem to have a greater instinct for networking. And the unfettered-by-machismo males who have taken to networking will do better than those who shun it as "sissy stuff." But truth is, it has always been the age of "networkers"; and in an era where organizations depend more and more on tenuously connected outsiders to get the job done, it will only become so.”
“Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.”
“Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.”
“It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.”
“O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.”

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