#only

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#course #emotion #emotions #escape #expression

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#help #language #only #poetry #prevent

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow? ↗

— Black Elk

#bend #even #friend #going #heavy

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. ↗

— Linda Ellerbee

#alike #definition #differences #more #much

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#dared #great #great men #had #men

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#compared #embrace #music #only #prayer

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#aspect #beautiful #being #consideration #family

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort. ↗

— Epictetus

#conducive #dangerous #dangerous thing #difficult #effort

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#only #ridiculous #road #step #sublime

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven. ↗

— Ben Elton

#feel #heaven #intense #love #made