"I wonder who first discovered the efficacy..." - Quote by Jane Austen
I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet
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“Let us have the luxury of silence.”
“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”
“Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.”
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“My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.”
“One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.”
“A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." - W. H. Auden"A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.”
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“Sweets to the sweet.”
“On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.”
“Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours .... And reflecting each other's love you see infinity.”