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“The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom." When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: "And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.”

Should Wells Said Wisdom Asks Easy Doors Dying Mouths Tasks Golden Streams Prophet Bores Supplies

Book:The Poems

Source: The Poems

“I was thinking, I could turn him into a fly and drop him into a spider's web and watch him tangled and helpless and struggling, shut into the body of a dying buzzing fly; I could wish him dead until he died.I could fasten him to a tree and keep him there until he grew into the trunk and bark grew over his mouth. if he was under the ground I could walk over him stamping my feet.”

Source: Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches

“the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are”

Truth Faces Poetry Fighting Black White Dying Poet Truth Is Racism Mouths Black And White Face To Face

Book:Odes

Source: Odes

“I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his mouth. The dancers come on from the wings, perfectly mated.”

Actors Growth Lines White Acting Dying Mouths Wings Dancer Forgiven

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“I still grieve for the words unsaid. Something terrible happens when we stop the mouths of the dying before they are dead. A silence grows up between us then, profounder than the grave. If we force the dying to go speechless, the stone dropped into the well will fall forever before the answering splash is heard.”

Ifs Wells Stills Happens Fall Force Grows Silence Forever Growing Up Heard Dying Terrible Mouths Stones Graves Grieving Unsaid Speechless

Book:A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life

Source: A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life

“The fact that he had foamed at the mouth immediately upon dying, indicated that he had a great back jam of wishes and desires and truths that were never spoken...out bubbled all the words he had swallowed when he was alive.”

Facts Desire Wish Alive Dying Mouths Jam

Author:Kaye Gibbons

“All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.”

Inspirational Hard Death Dies Dying Strange Mouths Death And Dying Complaints Dying Death Someone Who Is Dying Short Death People Who Are Dying

Book:Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins

Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins

“I think I’m dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.”

Thinking Knows Guy Dying Particular Mouths Ruins

Author:Elizabeth Chandler

“Stuart stands and says, 'Come here,' and he's on my side of the room in one stride and he claps my hands to his hips and kisses my mouth like I am the drink he's been dying for all day and I've heard girls say it's like melting, that feeling. But I think it's like rising, growing even taller and seeing sights over a hedge, colors you've never seen before.”

Thinking Feelings Hands Girl Sides Rooms Growing Seeing Heard Dying Color Drink Kissing Mouths Sight Hips Rising Melting Stride

Book:The Help

Source: The Help

“You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about to put in her mouth. "You're going to lose yourself in this, Josey. It's going to happen if you don't change. I know. I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.”

Ifs Knows Way Trying Said Happens Lost Loses Dying Mouths Handful Finding Happiness Don't Change Losing Yourself Popcorn Lost Myself

Book:The Sugar Queen

Source: The Sugar Queen

“A sob racks my body again, and he wraps his arms around me so tightly I find it difficult to breathe, but it doesn't matter. My dignified weeping gives way to full-on ugliness, my mouth open and my face contorted and sounds like a dying animal coming from my throat. If this continues I will break apart, and maybe that would be better, maybe it would be better to shatter and bear nothing.”

Ifs Way Giving Matter Body Would Be Faces Difficult Sound Animal Break Dying Arms Bears Mouths Breathe Throat Ugliness Wraps Weeping Racks

Author:Veronica Roth

“Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.”

Heart Millions Dying My Heart Mouths

Author:Anthony Kiedis