Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Life is a jest; and all things show it.
I thought so once; but now I know it.

Life is a jest; and all things show it.
I thought so once; but now I know it.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose read more

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

What I want back is what I was
Before the bed, before the knife,
Before the brooch-pin and the salve
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What I want back is what I was
Before the bed, before the knife,
Before the brooch-pin and the salve
Fixed me in this parenthesis;
Horses fluent in the wind,
A place, a time gone out of mind.

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.