"A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically."

Lie, Emotions, Language, Moods

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"A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically."

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"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."

William James, American Philosopher

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"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"A lie never lives to be old."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between."

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"A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically."

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