“He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.”
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Lois Lowry 59
American writer 1937Related quotes

Unlikely Stories, Mostly (1983)
Context: I asked the headmaster of literature, "Why are there so many headmasters and so few poets? Is it easier for you to train your own kind than ours?" He said, "No. The emperor needs all the headmasters he can get. If a quarter of his people were headmasters he would be perfectly happy. But more than two poets would tear his kingdom apart."
"Five Letters from an Eastern Empire", p. 88.

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 584.

The Soldier's Funeral from The London Literary Gazette (16th November 1822)
The Improvisatrice (1824)

Epigram 2, translation by William Johnson Cory in Ionica (1858) p. 7
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