"Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do..." - Quote by J R R Tolkien
Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?
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More on Poetry
“You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.”
“one pale woman all alone,The daylight kissing her wan hair,Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare,With lips of flame and heart of stone.”
“Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.”
More on Urgency
“We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.”
“Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.”
“If I go home and someone, and my child has blood running down her leg and someone tells me that a snake bit her, I'm going out and kill the snake. And when I find the snake, I'm not going to look and see if he has blood on his jaws.”