In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
タグ: difference, language, poetry, great

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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
タグ: her, knowing, she, wings, bird
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
タグ: still, to-love, loved, love
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
タグ: father, brother, son, stars, heart
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
タグ: love, happiness
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
タグ: becomes, fact, right, revolution
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