“In many ways doth the full heart reveal
The presence of the love it would conceal.”
Poems Written in Later Life, motto (1826)
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English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834Related quotes
“The snow covers many a dunghill, so doth prosperity many a rotten heart.”
page 87
Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652
Мое собственное сердце скрыло бы это от меня, потому что нелюбовь почти как убийство, и я никому не в силах была бы нанести этого удара.
Doctor Zhivago (1957)
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom
Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- The sense of the ineffable, p. 90 -->
Context: Being is both presence and absence. God had to conceal His presence in order to bring the world into being. He had to make His absence possible in order to make room for the world's presence. Coming into being brought along denial and defiance, absence, oblivion and resistance.
“All writers have concealed more than they revealed.”
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Context: One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
“It is more sinful to conceal the power of the atom than it is to reveal it.”
Statement, 9 March 1954. Quoted in Peter G Boyle's The Churchill-Eisenhower Correspondence 1953-55
“The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.”
Satire I, l. 51.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.”
D'ogni pianta palesa l'aspetto
Il difetto, che il tronco nasconde
Per le fronde, dal frutto, o dal fior.
Part I.
Giuseppe Riconosciuto (1733)