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Novelist 1963Related quotes
“If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.”
Lucy Larcom (1824–1893) American teacher, poet, author
Journal entry (2 March 1861), Ch. 5 : The Beginning of the War.
Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary (1895)
Context: I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism, and Selected Critical Prose
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
Kurt Vonnegut book Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
“When you’re losing, everything hurts.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Aberjhani (1957) author
(Elijah's Skin, p. 4).
Book Sources, I Made My Boy Out of Poetry (1998)
“Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?”
Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road
Source: On the Jellicoe Road
“Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having.”
Sarah Mlynowski (1977) Novelist
Source: Gimme a Call