I urge you: remember that like children's toys or a blooming bouquet,
A happiness that is brought to you can just as easily be snatched away,
Done even by that sweetheart of a boy, with eyes like the sea after a storm,
I must warn you that pure beauty is in fact evil in its most dangerous form.
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My Own Tangle of Thorns
Poetry'Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.' I have always loved this quote. I have always loved Lolita. How the cruellest things i...
