Quotes From "Selected Poetry" By

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Anything in the world can be endured, except a series of wonderful days. Unknown
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You must, in studying Nature, always consider both each single thing and the whole: nothing is inside and nothing is outside, for what is within is without. Make haste, then, to grasp this holy mystery which is public knowledge. Rejoice in the true illusion, in the serious game: no living thing is a unity, it is always manifold. Unknown
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Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these. Unknown
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Poetry is not–except in a very limited sense–a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster? Cecil DayLewis