Today, 10 quotes from Rupert Brooke, English wartime poet, who was born on this date in 1887.
There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.
If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.
Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.
And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish
Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?
We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
The first in a new series! It has invading aliens, gladiator-style contests, rivalry and romance.
The six richest people in Britain decide to hold a contest to settle the question of which of them is most successful. It will be a gladiator style contest with each entrant fielding a team of ten super-powered combatants. Entrepreneur Llew Powell sets out to put together his team, which includes his former lover, an employee of his company with a fascinating hobby, two refugees from another dimension (a lonely giant and a drunken sailor), two sisters bound together by a promise, a diminutive doctor, a former Tibetan monk initiate and two androids with a history. As the team train together, alliances form, friendships and more develop, while others find the past is not easy to leave behind.
Meanwhile, a ruthless race of aliens has its eyes on the Earth. Already abducting and enslaving humans, they work towards the final invasion which would destroy life on Earth as we know it. Powell’s group, Combat Team Alpha, stumble upon one of the wormholes the aliens use to travel to Earth and witness for themselves the horrors in store if the aliens aren’t stopped. Barely escaping with their lives, they realise there are more important things to worry about than a fighting competition.
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