Love is two people mutually feeding each other, not one living on the soul of the other like a ghoul.

Bessie Head

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Nature of love Love

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Sello

Author

Bessie Head

Source

A Question of Power

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Writer

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South Africa Africa

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Citation

Head, Bessie. A Question of Power. Davis-Poynter, 1973, pt. 1.

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I am haunted by waters.

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Man and nature Water

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A River Runs Through It
Medium
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1976 1970s 20th century
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Citation

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Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

William Blake

Songs of Experience

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Generous love Nature of love Love

Author

William Blake
Source
Songs of Experience
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1794 1790s 18th century
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Original Citation

Blake, William. "The Clod and the Pebble." Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. London, 1794.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "The Clod & the Pebble." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Kenneth Tynan

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Critics

Author

Kenneth Tynan
Statement Type
Definition
Language
English
Time
1963 1960s 20th century
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Citation

Tynan, Kenneth. Quoted in "Critic Kenneth Tynan Has Mellowed But Is Still England's Stingingest Gadfly." Written by Godfrey Smith. The New York Times, 9 Jan. 1966.