“I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.”
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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