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George Gordon Byron 227
English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788–1824Related quotes

“The scars remain and the wounds are still deep.”
Scottish Government's relationship with Europe (July 11, 2007)

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Source: "The Favorite Game"
Context: Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.

“The rain
Never falls upwards.
When the wound
Stops hurting
What hurts is
The scar.”
"Poems Belonging to a Reader for Those who Live in Cities" [Zum Lesebuch für Städtebewohner gehörige Gedichte] (1926-1927), poem 10, trans. Frank Jones in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 148
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)
“The wounds of the spirit heal and leave no scars.”
“Even when the wound is healed, the scar remains.”
Maxim 236
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Variant: Even when there is no law, there is conscience.