"Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory."

-- James Russell Lowell

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“I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes.”
“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
“It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard by those whose lives listen to god. It is not adviseable to cheat that which has no other stake than the deeps and brights of all man.”

Source : Kenneth Patchen (1948). “Cloth of the Tempest”
“Cuchulain stirred, Stared on the horses of the sea, and heard The cars of battle and his own name cried; And fought with the invulnerable tide.”
“Old friends are best.”

Source : 'Table Talk' (1689) 'Friends'
“I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.”
“If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.”
“I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.”

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