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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.

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Hesiod: A bad neighbour...

Hesiod: A bad neighbour...

A bad neighbour is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great blessing.

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: But what if...

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: But what if...

But what if it doesn't work ... ?
and they jammed sticks
In the wheels of the first locomotive
To make sure...

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Robert Burns: Suspense is worst...

Robert Burns: Suspense is worst...

Suspense is worst than disappointment.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Robert Burns: O, my luve's...

Robert Burns: O, my luve's...

O, my luve's like a red red rose
That's newly sprung in June:
O my luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly...

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Louis Aragon: We know that...

Louis Aragon: We know that...

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

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Elizabeth Bishop: The iceberg cuts...

Elizabeth Bishop: The iceberg cuts...

The iceberg cuts its facets from within
Like jewelry from a grave.


Source: The...

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Francis Thompson: Spring is come...

Francis Thompson: Spring is come...

Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet.
And all the things are made young with young...

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Wilfred Owen: And in the...

Wilfred Owen: And in the...

And in the happy no-time of his sleeping
Death took him by the heart.


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Vachel Lindsay: Authors and uncaptured...

Vachel Lindsay: Authors and uncaptured...

Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine.

Source: In...

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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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Stevie Smith: Fourteen-year-old, why must...

Stevie Smith: Fourteen-year-old, why must...

Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote,
Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat?
I'm fourteen years...

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Alexander Smith: I go into...

Alexander Smith: I go into...

I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of...

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Edmund Waller: Poets lose half...

Edmund Waller: Poets lose half...

Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly...

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Anne Bradstreet: There is no...

Anne Bradstreet: There is no...

There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evill that we feel, or fear, but we...

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