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Countee Cullen: My poetry, I...

Countee Cullen: My poetry, I...

My poetry, I should think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

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Christopher Hampton: Asking a working...

Christopher Hampton: Asking a working...

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about...

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Aeschylus: Who holds a...

Aeschylus: Who holds a...

Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.

Source:
-- Aeschylus,...

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Wilson Mizner: When you take...

Wilson Mizner: When you take...

When you take stuff from one author, it's plagiarism; if you take it from many writers, it's...

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Wilson Mizner: I hate careless...

Wilson Mizner: I hate careless...

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

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Oscar Wilde: In all pointed...

Oscar Wilde: In all pointed...

In all pointed sentences some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

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Oscar Wilde: A thing is...

Oscar Wilde: A thing is...

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Source: Erskine, in The...

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Oscar Wilde: America has been...

Oscar Wilde: America has been...

America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.

Source: In...

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Oscar Wilde: Morality is simply...

Oscar Wilde: Morality is simply...

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

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Rupert Brooke: A book may...

Rupert Brooke: A book may...

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too...

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Cecil Frances Alexander: The rich man...

Cecil Frances Alexander: The rich man...

The rich man in his castle,
the poor man at his gate,
God made them, high or lowly,
and ordered their...

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John Ashbery: I like poems...

John Ashbery: I like poems...

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

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Andrew Marvell: He nothing common...

Andrew Marvell: He nothing common...

He nothing common did or mean
Upon that memorable scene,
But with his keener eye
The axe's edge did...

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Arthur Hugh Clough: If hopes were...

Arthur Hugh Clough: If hopes were...

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

Source: Say Not the Struggle Nought...

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Vachel Lindsay: Life is a...

Vachel Lindsay: Life is a...

Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

Source: The Chinese Nightingale.
-- Vachel...

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Vachel Lindsay: This is the...

Vachel Lindsay: This is the...

This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: --
To speak of bloody power as right divine,
And call on God to guard...

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Jean de la Fontaine: He told me...

Jean de la Fontaine: He told me...

He told me never to sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Source:...

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Alexander Smith: If you wish...

Alexander Smith: If you wish...

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

Source: Dreamthorp, ...

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Alexander Smith: I would rather...

Alexander Smith: I would rather...

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

Source: In Webster's...

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Geoffrey Chaucer: No-wher so bisy...

Geoffrey Chaucer: No-wher so bisy...

No-wher so bisy a man as he ther nas,
And yet he semed bisier than he was.


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