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Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

Edward Young
Splinters, Fame, Satire
Edward Young, Sir Herbert Croft, Sir Herbert Croft (5th bart), Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edward Young ...”, p.222

I think we've come to a kind of splinter period in poetry. These tiny little bright fragments of observation - and not produced under sufficient pressure - some of it's very skillful, but I don't think there's anywhere a discernible major poet in the process of emerging; or if he is, I ain't seen him.

Conrad Aiken
Thinking, Splinters, Littles

My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.

Christian Louboutin
Father, Views, Splinters

I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual where, on the cold bathroom tiles, I was spread out daily and examined for flaws. I did not know that my bones, those solids, those pieces of sculpture would not splinter.

Anne Sexton
Hoarding, Sculpture, Splinters

Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

Ambrose Bierce
Hands, Tree, Splinters
Ambrose Bierce (2012). “Civil War Stories”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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