"Soon the purple dark must bruise Lily and bleeding-heart and rose, And the little Cupid lose Eyes and ears and chin and nose"

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Source : Donald Justice (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.40, Knopf

Donald Justice

#Eye Quotes #Dark Quotes #Rose Quotes

“If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have as much of it as you please: But if it means the liberty of affronting, calumniating and defaming one another, I, for my part, own myself willing to part with my share of it, whenever our legislators shall please so to alter the law and shall chearfully consent to exchange my liberty of abusing others for the privilege of not being abused myself.”
“Somebody curse the light And take me far away from myself”
“Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?”
“I go to a poison registry and I find that no one has died from any overdose of any vitamins, herbs, or amino acids... But FIVE THOUSAND people end up dying from drug reactions in a single year.”
“Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives”
“I’ve had a great life, and it all happened because I didn’t plan any of it.”
“It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different person each time we open a book to read it again; we can never really experience it in the same way, just as we can never step into the same stream twice.”
“What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.”

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