“love is more thicker than forget
…it is more sane and sunly
and more it cannot die
than all the sky which only
is higher than the sky”
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50 Poems (1940)
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Thicker Than Blood, written by Jenny Yates and G. Brooks.
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“It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.”
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“I love you more than there are fishes in the sea and higher than the moon”
Variant: I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.
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“It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.”
Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1872), p. 213

English and Welsh (1955)

The Act of Creation, London, (1970) p. 253.
Context: Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself. The scientist's discoveries impose his own order on chaos, as the composer or painter imposes his; an order that always refers to limited aspects of reality, and is based on the observer's frame of reference, which differs from period to period as a Rembrant nude differs from a nude by Manet.