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It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.

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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
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No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.
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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.
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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.
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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
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The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.
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I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
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a self-made martyr is a poor thing.
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you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.
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