"Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear."

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Source : Andrew Motion (2010). “Selected Poems of Andrew Motion”, p.16, Faber & Faber

Andrew Motion

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“There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.”
“Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth, And there He lives and dies.”

Source : Alfred Noyes (1920). “Collected Poems”
“Mammoth organizations, these ponderous processes. Many people don't realize that the nuclear capability that this country [USA] amassed and maintained over the period of the Cold War cost $6 trillion .”

Source : "Gen. George Lee Butler". Interview with Michael McGuire, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 17, 1999.
“To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to him that you are a sinking man. A writer's love for another writer is never quite free of malice. He may enjoy discussing your failures even more than you do. He probably sees you as tragic, like his characters - or unworthy of tragedy, which is worse.”
“Love tends to union with the object loved. Now Jesus Christ loves a soul that is in a state of grace with immense love; He ardently desires to unite Himself with it. That is what Holy Communion does”
“Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.”
“It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.”

Source : "Esquire + Me in My Place with Camilla Luddington". Interview with Laura Lane, www.esquire.com. July 6, 2011.
“What on earth did you say to Isola? She stopped in on her way to pick up Pride and Prejudice and to berate me for never telling her about Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Why hadn't she known there were better love stories around? Stories not riddled with ill-adjusted men, anguish, death and graveyards!”

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