This is a book written by someone obsessed, stricken and deeply loving. There is nothing like it in literature.
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Broodingly suggestive of Donne's intellectual figure as well as his witty sensuality, it is also a picture of great intrinsic beauty and the bewitching evocation of an age. The National Portrait Gallery is its natural home. The picture is cheap at the price, and if we don't buy it someone else will.Andrew Motion
I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.
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Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.
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These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'
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You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.
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George Santayana
I might have to go on breakfast TV, which would mean getting up early.
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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe