"Hi! handsome hunting man Fire your little gun. Bang! Now the animal is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again, Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh, what fun!"

-- Walter de La Mare

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“And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!”

Source : Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.202
“I do sport at the gym a few times a week, but I hate it. Work is my only remedy. I feel so twisted and horrible in the morning, but then I go to the office and I start feeling better. Work is my Tylenol. Extra-strength.”
“It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.”
“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”
“I've always loved news. I've always loved storytelling and being where the scene is.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her.”
“Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever?”
“Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason, I giggle and dote in season.”

Source : Stevie Smith (1988). “New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

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