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There are not enough poems in praise of bed.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Sylvia Townsend Warner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1893
Born: December 6
Died: 1978
Died: May 1
Linguist
Musicologist
Novelist
Poet
Translator
Writer
Harrow
Silvia Warner
Poems
Bed
Praise
Enough

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You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash and then for a very long time you are old.
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I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.
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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no apple-room, and no potting-shed, earthy and warm, with bunches of poppy heads hanging from the ceiling, and sunflower seeds in a wooden box, and bulbs in thick paper bags, and hanks of tarred string, and lavender drying on a tea-tray.
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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.
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When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.
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There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
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Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.
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Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses.
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Young people are careless of their virginity one day they may have it and the next not.
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