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“A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironic, the suggestive; when it speaks, it wants you to lean forward a little to overhear; it wants you to understand things only years later.”

Want Needs Years Littles Said Speak Secret Tension Thrive Ironic Disguise Implied

Book:Twenty Questions

Source: Twenty Questions

“Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little.”

Kind Littles Able Can Do Amount Built Thrive

Book:Keys to Success

Source: Keys to Success

“A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.”

May Littles Draws Observation Thrive Maintenance Matrimony Single Life Bachelors Yoke

Book:Love's sacrifice. Perkin Warbeck. The fancies chaste and noble

Source: Love's sacrifice. Perkin Warbeck. The fancies chaste and noble

“Can it be possible that all human sympathies can thrive, and all human powers be exercised, and all human joys increase, if we live with all our might with the thirty or forty people next to us, telegraphing kindly to all other people, to be sure? Can it be possible that our passion for large cities, and large parties, and large theatres, and large churches, develops no faith nor hope nor love which would not find aliment and exercise in a little "world of our own"?”

People Ifs World Humans Littles Might Joy Passion Next Church Party Cities Exercise Increase Theatre Thirty Thrive Forty Human Power Large Cities

Book:Works

Source: Works