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“Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.”

Quote by Marianne Moore

Book:Like a bulwark

Work

This book delves into the human spirit's capacity to withstand and overcome challenges, drawing parallels to the strength of a bulwark against external forces. more

Author

American poet known for her unique modernist style and profound philosophical insights. Her poetry is concise and insightful, often exploring themes of nature, art, and the human condition. more

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“All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.”

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“We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like Judas among the disciples, it was inevitable that it should be included. The Apocalypse is the feet of clay to the grand Christian image. And down crashes the image, on the weakness of these very feet. There is Jesus--but there is also John the Divine. There is Christian love--and there is Christian envy. The former would "save" the world--the latter will never be satisfied till it has destroyed the world. They are two sides of the same medal.”

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“Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.”

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Book:Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

Source: Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

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“Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.”

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Book:D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)

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Source: The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“Sacred love is selfless, seeking not its own. The lover serves his beloved and seeks perfect communion of oneness with her.”

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“When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.”

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