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„Byl to bezvýhradně nejduchaplnější mistr konverzace s jakým jsem se kdy setkal, nejpohotovější, nejvtipnější, nejsmělejší… Nikdo si nemohl dělat naděje, že ve společnosti zazáří oslnivěji než on, ba nikdo nemohl doufat, že vedle něho zazáří vůbec.“

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

o Oscaru Wildovi
Zdroj: [Wilde, Oscar, 1965, Cantervillské strašidlo a jiné prózy, Mladá fronta, 265, v doslovu J. Z. Nováka]

O naději

“Therefore the earth is dark to me, the sunlight blackness,
Therefore I go in tears and alone, by night and day;
Therefore I find no love in heaven, no light, no beauty,
A heaven taken by storm, where none are left but the slain!”

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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

The Desolate City, from Collected Poems (1914)

“Dark to me is the earth. Dark to me are the heavens.
Where is she that I loved, the woman with eyes like stars?
Desolate are the streets. Desolate is the city.
A city taken by storm, where none are left but the slain.”

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“I knew the Spring was come. I knew it even
Better than all by this, that through my chase
In bush and stone and hill and sea and heaven
I seem'd to see and follow still your face.
Your face my quarry was. For it I rode,
My horse a thing of wings, myself a god.”

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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

St. Valentine's Day, from Collected Poems (1914)

“Life is a play acted by dying men,
Where, if its heroes seem to foot it well
And go light-tongued without grimace of pain,
Death will be found anon. And who shall tell
Which part was saddest, or in youth or age,
When the tired actor stops and leaves the stage?”

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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

'Esther, A Young Man's Tragedy" (1892), Sonnet II http://www.sonnets.org/esther.htm