“The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives"”
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet
a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
"The Poet's Vision" (1959)
“But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture for a moment and speak as civilized human beings and Bruno decided to make this one of those moments.”
Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction 1971Related quotes
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Context: I heard a famous author say once that the hardest part of writing a book was making yourself sit down at the typewriter. I know what he meant. Unless a writer works constantly to improve and refine the tools of his trade they will be useless instruments if and when the moment of inspiration, of revelation, does come. This is the moment when a writer is spoken through, the moment that a writer must accept with gratitude and humility, and then attempt, as best he can, to communicate to others.
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“Until the actual moment, when they cut me down, I shall still be looking to win.”
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Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 9
Context: I don't give a damn, laddie. Until the actual moment, when they cut me down, I shall still be looking to win. And the gods of war are fickle at best.
