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Provence quotes

  • He played an ancient ditty, long since mute, In Provence called,'La belle dame sans mercy'.

    -John Keats
      Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'The Eve of St.  Agnes', stanza 33.

  • Is it any better in Heaven, my friend Ford, Than you found it in Provence?

    -William Carlos Williams
      TheWedge,'To Ford Madox Ford in Heaven'.

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