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Talismans Quotes

What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?

What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?

Rita Dove
World, Talismans
Rita Dove (2016). “Collected Poems: 1974-2004”, p.185, W. W. Norton & Company

Books are not seldom talismans and spells.

William Cowper
Book, Talismans, Spells
William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.297

The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.

Adam Parfrey
Gestalt, Able, Talismans

Work, ah! that talisman to guard one against one's self.

Rosa Campbell Praed
Work, Self, Talismans

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