James Merrill quotes
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“The day is breaking someone else's heart.”
-- James MerrillSource : James Merrill (1982). “From the First Nine: Poems, 1946-1976”, New York : Atheneum
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“In life, there are no perfect affections.”
-- James MerrillSource : James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf
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“But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.”
-- James MerrillSource : James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf
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“And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.”
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“Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.”
-- James MerrillSource : James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf
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“Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.”
-- James MerrillSource : James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf
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“The simplest science book is over my head.”
-- James MerrillSource : James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf
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“Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.”
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“At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.”
-- James MerrillSource : James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf
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