Mervyn Peake Short Quotes

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But we have seen it in the air,
A fairy like a William Pear

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I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold. - Coloured Money

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Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.

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Yet not with all of me am I in love. Too much of my own quietness is with me.

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He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.

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For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.

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Cold love's the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized.

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The paper is breathless
Under the hand
And the pencil is poised
Like a warlock's wand.

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O'er seas that have no beaches
To end their waves upon,
I floated with twelve peaches,
A sofa and a swan.

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When Uncle Jake
Became a snake
He never found it out;
And so as no one mentions it
One sees him still about.

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It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible

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There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.

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Leave the stronger
and the lesser
things to me!
Lest that conger
named Vanessa
who is longer
than a dresser
visits thee.

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It's not their fault if, in the heat
Of their transactions, I repeat
It's not their fault if vampires meet
And gurgle in their spats.

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Each day I live in a glass room
Unless I break it with the thrusting
Of my senses and pass through
The splintered walls to the great landscape.

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I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music. It is the smell of home.

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This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven.

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And there shall be a flame-green daybreak soon. And love itself will cry for insurrection! For tomorrow is also a day - and Titus has entered his stronghold.

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Years on end, and swords on end - where will it end, if our ears unbend - what shall I spend on a wrinkled friend in a pair of tights like a bunch of lights?

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Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man.

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And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?

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