“Let me not so much be lost in involvements
as would make me incapable of
recognizing the fragrance of the flower
beaming in my own yard.”

Source: Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Home Burial (1915)
Context: A man must partly give up being a man
With womenfolk. We could have some arrangement
By which I'd bind myself to keep hands off
Anything special you're a-mind to name.
Though I don't like such things 'twixt those that love.
Two that don't love can't live together without them.
But two that do can't live together with them."
She moved the latch a little. "Don't — don't go.
Don't carry it to someone else this time.
Tell me about it if it's something human.
Let me into your grief. I'm not so much
Unlike other folks as your standing there
Apart would make me out. Give me my chance.

Quoted in People magazine, 10 November 1980 http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20077832,00.html

Honda, interviewed by James Bailey, Tokyo Journal, April 1991

From a poem (c. 1920) in the Australian publication The Triad, as quoted in Out of the Sky She Came: The Life of P.L. Travers, Creator of Mary Poppins (1999) by Valerie Lawson, ISBN 0733610722</small> [U.S. and U.K. title: Mary Poppins, She Wrote : The Life of P. L. Travers (2006) <small> ISBN 0743298160]

"Dolce far Niente", Stanza 4, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Song 22: "Against Pride in Clothes".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)

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Quotes from the Judgment from Honorable Justice Agarwal, 2010