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“Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead us nearer heaven.”

May Earth Given Heaven Grief Sorrow Prove Mortals Immortality Remove

Book:The seraphim, and other poems, by E.B. Barrett

Source: The seraphim, and other poems, by E.B. Barrett

“She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in thought; and, with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? We men may say more, swear more; but indeed our shows are more than will; for we still prove much in our vows but little in our love.”

Men May Littles Stills Shows Grief Prove Green Sat Melancholy Yellow Cheeks Swear Our Love Worms Monument Vow Bud Concealment Twelfth Night Important

Author:William Shakespeare

“But little Mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes of mice and men Go often askew, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy! Still you are blest, compared with me!”

Men May Littles Stills Pain Joy Grief Prove Vain Schemes Mice Not Alone Foresight

Author:Robert Burns

“Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must achieve mastery over your idealism, over your virtue as well as over your vice, aesthetic mastery over everything that drives you to write in the first place - your outrage, your politics, your grief, your love!”

Writing Firsts Wells Art Desire Artist Grief Virtue Achieve Effects Terrible Prove Vices Temptation Aesthetic Mastery Idealism Outrage Sinister

Book:I Married a Communist

Source: I Married a Communist

“Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.”

Poor Grief Rich Prove Gains Profit Excess

Book:Poems: Third Series

Source: Poems: Third Series

“But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!”

Men May Art Pain Joy Grief Prove Philosophical Vain Schemes Mice Gang Lanes Foresight Best Laid Plans

Book:The Best Laid Schemes: Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns

Source: The Best Laid Schemes: Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns

“When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to the countryside of grief, and that descent, resisted so long proves invigorating. . . . As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.”

Years Long Art Able Artist Grief Painting Discipline Sorrow Prove Twenties Pursue Thirty Carrie Sculpture Thirty Years Countryside Composing Descent Invigorating

Author:Robert Bly