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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?

Love, Growing, Divides

Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.352, Faber & Faber

I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!

Love Life, Long, Breathe

Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.273, Faber & Faber

Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.

Anxiety, Technique, Poetry Is

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

Long, Rebel, Goes On

1958 Balthazar, pt.2.

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.

Firsts, Resolution, Dare

Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.23, Faber & Faber

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

Squares, Air, Pillars

Lawrence Durrell (2012). “Collected Poems 1931-74”, p.48, Faber & Faber