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Benjamin Franklin: Our necessities never...

Benjamin Franklin: Our necessities never...

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar...

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Rupert Brooke: Breathless, we flung...

Rupert Brooke: Breathless, we flung...

Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill,
Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely...

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Scott Alexander: Understand that most...

Scott Alexander: Understand that most...

Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you...

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Louis Aragon: O reason, reason,...

Louis Aragon: O reason, reason,...

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached...

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May Swenson: We play in...

May Swenson: We play in...

We play in the den of the Gods and snort at death.

Source: To Confirm A Thing, St....

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John Ashbery: I write with...

John Ashbery: I write with...

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

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Elizabeth Bishop: All my life...

Elizabeth Bishop: All my life...

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like [the] sandpiper -- just running down the edges of different...

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Eliza Cook: I love it,...

Eliza Cook: I love it,...

I love it, I love it; and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?


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Hesiod: Potter is jealous...

Hesiod: Potter is jealous...

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet...

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J August Strindberg: In the old...

J August Strindberg: In the old...

In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend....

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J August Strindberg: Friendship can only...

J August Strindberg: Friendship can only...

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions...

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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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Neil Simon: Don't listen to...

Neil Simon: Don't listen to...

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it...

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Thomas Gray: Alas! regardless of...

Thomas Gray: Alas! regardless of...

Alas! regardless of their doom,
The little victims play!
No sense have they of ills to come
Nor care...

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Fulke Greville: Taste may be...

Fulke Greville: Taste may be...

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of...

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Edwin A Robinson: I shall have...

Edwin A Robinson: I shall have...

I shall have more to say when I am dead.

Source: John Brown.
-- Edwin A...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: It is brave...

Gwendolyn Brooks: It is brave...

It is brave to be involved
To be not fearful to be unresolved.


Source: do not...

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Allen Ginsberg: The only thing...

Allen Ginsberg: The only thing...

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry...

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John Osborne: But I have...

John Osborne: But I have...

But I have a go, lady, don't I? Pave a go. I do.

Source: The Entertainer (1957) no....

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Nathalie Sarraute: Television has lifted...

Nathalie Sarraute: Television has lifted...

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major...

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