Quotations About / On: PAIN

  • 41.
    But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Manners," Essays, Second Series (1844).)
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  • 42.
    Know from this the world's a snare,
    How that greatness is but care,
    How all pleasures are but pain,
    And how short they do remain:
    (Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)(1584-1616), British dramatist, and William Basse (fl. C. 1602), British dramatist. Lines on the Tombs in Westminster (l. 15-18). . . Attributed to Beaumont and to Basse Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 43.
    The violin
    sustains him. It is pain remembered.
    (Stanley Plumly (b. 1939), U.S. poet. Out-of-the-Body Travel (l. 18-19). . . Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, The, 1950-1980. Stuart Friebert and David Young, eds. (1983) Longman.)
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  • 44.
    A wizened countenance, forgetting pain;
    A light, a twisted thought, a shattered brain.
    (Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Suicide.")
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  • 45.
    The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
    (Anaïs Nin (1903-1977), Franco-American novelist, diarist. Quoted in Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, preface (1934).)
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  • 46.
    This last pain for the damned the Fathers found:
    "They knew the bliss with which they were not crowned."
    (William Empson (1906-1984), British critic, poet. This Last Pain (l. 1-2). . . 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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  • 47.
    And spying far away
    Upon the Tibetan plain
    A limping caravan,
    Dive, and exterminate
    The Lama, late
    Survival of old pain.
    (Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Ode to Our Young Pro-consuls of the Air.")
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  • 48.
    Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
    (Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist. Trans. by Lorenzo O'Rourke. "Thoughts," Postscriptum de ma vie, in Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography, Funk and Wagnalls (1907).)
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  • 49.
    The blood blooms clean

    In you, ruby.
    The pain
    You wake to is not yours.
    (Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Nick and the Candlestick (l. 24-27). . . The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.)
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  • 50.
    All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Spiritual Laws," Essays, First Series (1841, repr. 1847).)
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