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Agatha Christie: “A Tongue May Sometimes Be a Weapon”

Photographer Unknown, (Tongue and Blade), Selfie

“I never gossip – but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I’m not deaf mute.”

“That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death – may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death.”

― Agatha Christie, Death Comes as the End

The Open Shirt

Photographer Unknown, (The Open Shirt Reveal), Selfie

“In the eyes of others, a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own, he is only a poet at the moment when he is making his last revision to a new poem. The moment before, he was still only a potential poet; the moment after, he is a man who has ceased to write poetry, perhaps forever.” 

—W. H. Auden, The Dyer’s Hand

Beach and Sun

Photographer Unknown, (Beach and Sun)

“To be upon the beach yourself, and see the long waves coming in; to know that they are long waves, but only see a piece of them. And to hear them lifting roundly, swelling over smooth green rocks, plashing down in the hollow corners, but bearing on all the same as ever, soft and sleek and sorrowful, till their little noise is over.”
― R.D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone