“We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.”
Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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November 2, 2010.
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6 Music Show
“The paper is breathless
Under the hand
And the pencil is poised
Like a warlock's wand.”
Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) English writer, artist, poet and illustrator
Poem in The Glassblowers (1950)
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Shadrach (1957)
“With hue like that when some great painter dips
His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley The Revolt of Islam
Canto V, st. 23
The Revolt of Islam (1817)