“May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.”
Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending
Source: The Sense of an Ending
“And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.”
— Virginia Woolf, book The Waves
Source: The Waves
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Source: A Farewell to Arms
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