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Imamu Amiri Baraka: To name something...

Imamu Amiri Baraka: To name something...

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

Source: In...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Measure not the...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Measure not the...

Measure not the work
Until the day's out and the labour done,
Then bring your...

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Virgil: Time bears away...

Virgil: Time bears away...

Time bears away all things, even the mind.

Source: Eclogues.
-- Virgil, (Oct 15...

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John Donne: God employs several...

John Donne: God employs several...

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by...

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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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Fulke Greville: Most men have...

Fulke Greville: Most men have...

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Source: In...

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Jean de LaFontaine: Gentleness succeeds better...

Jean de LaFontaine: Gentleness succeeds better...

Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your...

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Thomas Moore: No man, however...

Thomas Moore: No man, however...

No man, however great, is known to everybody and no man, however solitary, is known to...

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Edith Sitwell: I have often...

Edith Sitwell: I have often...

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. . . . But I am too busy thinking about...

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Janet Erskine Stuart: You must grow...

Janet Erskine Stuart: You must grow...

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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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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Robert Frost: A bank is...

Robert Frost: A bank is...

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to...

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Robert Frost: A diplomat is...

Robert Frost: A diplomat is...

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

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Stephane Mallarme: The poetic act...

Stephane Mallarme: The poetic act...

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them;...

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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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Basil Bunting: I hate Science....

Basil Bunting: I hate Science....

I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's...

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Wilfred Owen: The pallor of...

Wilfred Owen: The pallor of...

The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow...

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Eliza Cook: Better build schoolrooms...

Eliza Cook: Better build schoolrooms...

Better build schoolrooms for the boy,
Than cells and gibbets for the man.


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Eliza Cook: Why should we...

Eliza Cook: Why should we...

Why should we strive, with cynic frown,
To knock their fairy castles down?


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Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr: Let lessons of...

Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr: Let lessons of...

Let lessons of stern yesterdays . . . be your food, your drink, your rest.

Source:...

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