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“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”

Gilbert K. Chesterton · Poetry

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

War

Gilbert K. Chesterton

White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

God

Gilbert K. Chesterton

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

Great

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Marriage