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"I get a little poetic sometimes. The moonlight does that to me."

"That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the coming step of timeAll chaff of custom, wipe away all slimeLeft by men-slugs and human serpentry,Have been content to let occasion die,Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium."

"The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both."

"You should be more carefulwhen you move, my dearwhat with you...spilling moonlightinto my poem, with a mereflick of your hand."

"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

"A single poemis worth a hundredcozy winter nightskind wordsand healed wounds."

"Poetrymelts my bones.enters my blood.and changesits composition."
Explore more quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

"St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, 'I have understood every page I ever read'."

"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox, that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."

"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land."

"The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact, it is actually our truisms that are untrue."

"Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could turn into something else. It is really far more logical to start by saying 'In the beginning God created heaven and earth' even ifyou only mean 'In the beginning some unthinkable power began some unthinkable process.' For God is by its nature aname of mystery, and nobody ever supposed that man could imagine how a world was created any more than he couldcreate one. But evolution really is mistaken for explanation. It has the fatal quality of leaving on many minds the impression that they do understand it and everything else."

"He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican."
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