“Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.”
“I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.”
“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
“Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit-Life!”
“I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!”
“I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf”
“I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.”
“To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.”
“She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.”
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