The truth is, said Florence, that the women we are—have become—are not fit to do without men, or to live with them, in the world as it was. And if change, and don’t, there will be no help for us.
Maud considered. She said, 'In every age, there must be truths people can't fight - whether or not they want to, whether or not they will go on being truths in the future. We live in the truth of what...
It was hard for a man and a woman to be fiends with no under thought or glimpsed prospect of sex. They wanted to be friends. It was almost a matter of principle. She was as intelligent as any Fellow o...
But now, my dear, we are here, we are now, and those other times are running elsewhere.
Той живееше в романс, едновременно вулгарен и изтънчен, тъкмо романсът беше една от системите, на които беше подвластен, тъй като за добро или зло - и рано или късно - почти всеки обитател на западния...
Бяха деца на такова време и такава култура, която се отнасяше с недоверие към любовта, влюбването, романтичната любов, романтиката изобщо, и въпреки това, сякаш за да си отмъсти, не спираше да бълва с...
Ls the Conjugial Angel stoneThat here he stands with heavy headThe backward-looking pillared deadInert, moss-covered, aIl alone?The Holy Ghost trawls ln the Void,With fleshly Sophy on His HookThe Sons...
Here George Eliot had progressed through the bookshelves. Roland saw her black silk skirts, her velvet trains, sweeping compressed between the Fathers of the Church, and heard her firm foot ring on me...
[Loki] was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting, mixing, he was the shape of a shapeless flame, he was the e...
Why do you go cold? He kept his voice gentle. I - I've analysed it. Because I have the sort of good looks I have. People treat you as a kind of ;possession; if you have a certain sort of good looks. N...
We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech--but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the ai...
We run with milk and bloodWhat we would give we spillThe hungry mouths are raisedWe spill we fail to fillThis cannot be restoredThis flow cannot redeemThis white's not wiped awayThough blanched we see...
Think of me if you will as the Lady of Shalott . . . who chooses to watch diligently the bright colours of her Web - to ply an industrious shuttle - to make - something - to close the Shutters and the...
There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like...
The words men used to describe the gods were the words they used for fetters or bonds, things which held the world together, within bounds, preventing the breakout of chaos and disorder.
She was looking for a husband, partly because she was afraid no one might want her, partly becauseshe couldn't decide what to do with herself until that problem was solved, partly because everyone els...
She was called Maria. She was a Maria Magdalena who washed away sins, and she was Venus Anadyomene to me, though she was ill-nourished I think since birth, my artist’s eye saw she was puny, though my...
She leads you on and baffles you, said Beatrice. She wants you to know and not to know. She took care to write down that the box was there. And she buried it.
Part of her wanted simply to sit and stare out of the window, at the lawn, flaky with sodden leaves, and the branches with yellow leaves, or few, or none, she thought, taking pleasure at least in Shak...
One of you needs food,' said the Old Woman, 'and three of you need healing.'So the Princess sat down to good soup, and fresh bread, and fruit tart with clotted cream and a mug of sharp cider, and the...