Quotations About / On: DESPAIR

  • 41.
    None may teach it—Any—
    'Tis the Seal Despair—
    (Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. There's a certain Slant of light (l. 9-10). . . The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.)
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  • 42.
    What could not possible be there,
    And learn a style from a despair.
    (William Empson (1906-1984), British critic, poet. This Last Pain (l. 35-36). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)
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  • 43.
    The pain, the calm, and the astonishment,
    Desire illimitable, and still content,
    And all dear names men use, to cheat despair,
    (Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), British poet. The Great Lover (l. 3-5). . . Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.)
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  • 44.
    Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
    (Christopher Fry (b. 1907), British playwright. Time (New York, Nov. 20, 1950).)
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  • 45.
    The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.
    (Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Prague German Jewish author, novelist. The Third Notebook, November 30, 1917. The Blue Octavo Notebooks, ed. Max Brod, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins. Exact Change, Cambridge, MA (1991). Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins, New York, Schocken Books (1954).)
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  • 46.
    I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
    To all the pangs and fury of despair.
    (Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British essayist. Marcia, in Cato, act 4, sc. 3.)
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  • 47.
    a gentle man
    strength and despair
    quiet there in the bed ...
    (Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "Resting Figure.")
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  • 48.
    I will despair, and be at enmity
    With cozening hope.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Queen, in Richard II, act 2, sc. 2, l. 68-9. On learning that Henry Bolingbroke makes war against Richard; "cozening" means deceiving.)
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  • 49.
    Yet rapture, the very loveliest,
    changes, inbreeds
    blackest despair.
    (Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Calliope.")
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  • 50.
    He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 356, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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