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  •    Alas, it doesindeed seema monstrousthing, but afterall, what is chaste in Constantinople may have the aspect of lewdness in Liverpool, and what in Liverpool may pass for virtueinConstantinopleisfrequently regardedasvice.

    - Ford Madox originally Ford Hermann Hueffer Ford
      Letter to  John Lane,17 Dec.

  • and poets should stay out of politics or become monsters I have become monsterous with politics.

    - Allen Ginsberg
    Kaddish and Other Poems,'Death to Van Gogh's Ear!'.

  • With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy,Ithink, likeall menat seawho livetoo closeto each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon.

    - Sir William (Gerald) Golding
      Rites of Passage, closing words.

  • Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing.

    -John Crowe Ransom
      Chills and Fever,'Winter Remembered'.

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