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Imamu Amiri Baraka: The African, because...

Imamu Amiri Baraka: The African, because...

The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery,...

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Imamu Amiri Baraka: A rich man...

Imamu Amiri Baraka: A rich man...

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their...

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Robert Bolt: Morality's not practical....

Robert Bolt: Morality's not practical....

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

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Ovid: Luck affects everything;...

Ovid: Luck affects everything;...

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be...

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William Cowper: Absence of occupation...

William Cowper: Absence of occupation...

Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.


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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Every epoch, under...

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Every epoch, under...

Every epoch, under names more or less specious, has deified its peculiar errors.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Reviewers, with some...

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Reviewers, with some...

Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in...

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Robert Bly: By the time...

Robert Bly: By the time...

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in...

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John Clare: Untroubling and untroubled...

John Clare: Untroubling and untroubled...

Untroubling and untroubled where I lie;
The grass below - above the vaulted sky.


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Moslih Eddin Saadi: That which is...

Moslih Eddin Saadi: That which is...

That which is not allotted - the hand cannot reach, and what is allotted - will find you wherever you may...

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Moslih Eddin Saadi: I fear God,...

Moslih Eddin Saadi: I fear God,...

I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not.

Source: In...

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Sophocles: It is terrible...

Sophocles: It is terrible...

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Art is refining...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Art is refining...

Art is refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

Source: In...

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Denise Levertov: Images <br>split the...

Denise Levertov: Images
split the...

Images
split the truth
in fractions.


Source: A Sequence, in The Jacob's...

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Anne Sexton: It doesn't matter...

Anne Sexton: It doesn't matter...

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Source: The...

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David Hare: The theatre is...

David Hare: The theatre is...

The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why,...

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Alexander Smith: We are never...

Alexander Smith: We are never...

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

Source: Dreamthorp, ...

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Robert Browning: Ambition is not...

Robert Browning: Ambition is not...

Ambition is not what man does . . . but what man would do.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Robert Browning: What's a man's...

Robert Browning: What's a man's...

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all;
Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to...

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Robert Browning: It is best...

Robert Browning: It is best...

It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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