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“ Even speech was for them was a debased form of silence, how much more futile is poetry which is a debased form of speech. ”

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The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

~ Thornton Wilder

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

~ Thornton Wilder

There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple's corridors; she does not know herself. 'I can endure lies,' she cries. 'I cannot survive this stifling verisimilitude

~ Thornton Wilder

Everybody has a right to their own troubles.

~ Thornton Wilder