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Author - Mervyn Peake
Quotes by : Mervyn Peake
onomatopoeia
Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.
age
What is Time, O sister of similar features, that you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves....
gothic
His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial....
spasm
And then he began to laugh in a peculiar way of his own which was both violent and soundless. His heavy....
premeditation
How merciful a thing is man's ignorance of his immediate future! What a ghastly, paralysing thing it....
spirit
Each day we live is a glass roomUntil we break it with the thrustingOf the spirit and pass throughThe....
poetry
The vastest things are those we may not learn.We are not taught to die, nor to be born,Nor how to burnWith....
thoughts
From daybreak to sunset she turned her thoughts, like boulders, over. She set them in long lines. She....
eyes
Meanwhile Bellgrove had been savouring love's rare aperitif, the ageless language of the eyes.
lovers
To say that the frozen silence contracted itself into a yet higher globe of ice were to under-rate the....
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