But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
From Amelia Barr
The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
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