April 19, 2011

Algernon Charles Swinburne quotes

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

A calcined, scalped, rasped, scraped, flayed, broiled, powdered, leprous, blotched, mangy, grimy, parboiled country without trees, water, grass, fields ... it is infinitely liker hell than earth, and one looks for tails among the people.

Before the beginning of years
And Life, the shadow of death.

For winter's rains and ruins are over,
Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free;
Love me no more, but love my love of thee.

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