We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.John Fowles
Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
John Fowles
Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities.
John Fowles
Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
John Fowles
Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.
John Fowles
But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that our relation with it must be purposive, industrious, always seeking greater knowledge.
John Fowles
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