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Poetry
Exceeding music must take the place
Of empty heaven and its hymns....
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "The Man with the Blue Guitar.")
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... it is easier for a camel to pass through the needle's eye than for anything really chic to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
(Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879-1944), U.S. author. Modes and Morals, ch. 1 (1920).)
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Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak.
(Irving Berlin (1888-1989), U.S. songwriter. "Cheek to Cheek," Top Hat, Irving Berlin Music Corp. (1935).
Music composed by Walter Donaldson (1893-1947).)
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Thank heaven for little girls!
For little girls get bigger every day.
(Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986), U.S. songwriter. Thank Heaven for Little Girls (song), Gigi (film 1958).
The song was sung and recorded by Maurice Chevalier, whose signature tune it became.)
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Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
(Francis Thompson (1859-1907), British poet. To My Godchild M.W.M., Poems (1913).
Words inscribed (by Eric Gill) on Thompson's tombstone, Kensal Green, London.)
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Health is my expected heaven.
(John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. Letter, March 1, 1820, to his fiancιe Fanny Brawne. Letters of John Keats, no. 194, ed. Frederick Page (1954).
Keats died of tuberculosis.)
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calm and dry,
It holds you like a heaven, and you lie
Unvariably lovely there,
Smaller and clearer as the years go by.
(Philip Larkin (1922-1985), British poet. Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album (l. 42-45). . .
Collected Poems of Philip Larkin. Anthony Thwaite, ed. (1988) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.)
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All places are distant from heaven alike.
(Robert Burton (1577-1640), British clergyman, author. The Anatomy of Melancholy, pt. 2, sct. 3, memb. 4, subsct. 1 (1621).)
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