Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!
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Fernando Pessoa
The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain — and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.
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Ted Hughes
Eric has said that I carry close to my chest a ball of barbed wire that I sometimes throw at other people.
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Weike Wang
Relationships are messy and painful, and hard to maintain. It takes time build, but only seconds to destroy.
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Alexis Tiger
More Quotes By Francis Thompson
Where is the land of Luthany, Where is the tract of Elenore?I am bound therefore.' Pierce thy heart to find the key; With thee take Only what none else would keep; Learn to dream when thou dost wake; Learn to wake when thou dost sleep....
The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To her who loved the rose.
My freshness is spending its wavering shower in the dust.
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there.
In all change well looked into the germinal good out-vails the apparent ill.
