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J August Strindberg: I always disliked...

J August Strindberg: I always disliked...

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant...

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John Keats: Though man is...

John Keats: Though man is...

Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is...

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John Keats: Praise or blame...

John Keats: Praise or blame...

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tis better to...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tis better to...

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Source: In...

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Walt Whitman: There is that...

Walt Whitman: There is that...

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power...

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William Wordsworth: Thought and theory...

William Wordsworth: Thought and theory...

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or...

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Emily Dickinson: To make a...

Emily Dickinson: To make a...

To make a prairie
It takes clover and one bee
One clover, and a bee, and revery.
The revery alone will...

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Robert Bly: I have risen...

Robert Bly: I have risen...

I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding...

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John Clare: If life had...

John Clare: If life had...

If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.

Source: Letter to a...

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Fulke Greville: No man was...

Fulke Greville: No man was...

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

Source: In Wisdom of the...

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Anne Sexton: Even without wars,...

Anne Sexton: Even without wars,...

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Thomas Campbell: The world was...

Thomas Campbell: The world was...

The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sigh'd--till woman...

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Louis Aragon: The function of...

Louis Aragon: The function of...

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.

Source:...

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Louis Aragon: Fear of error...

Louis Aragon: Fear of error...

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes...

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Louis Aragon: Error is certainty's...

Louis Aragon: Error is certainty's...

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally...

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Basil Bunting: Always carry a...

Basil Bunting: Always carry a...

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

Source: In The...

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John Ashbery: There is the...

John Ashbery: There is the...

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation...

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Arthur Hugh Clough: Thou shalt not...

Arthur Hugh Clough: Thou shalt not...

Thou shalt not covet; but tradition
Approves all forms of competition.


Source:...

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Diane Wakoski: Learning to live...

Diane Wakoski: Learning to live...

Learning to live with what you're born with
is the process,
the involvement,
the making of a...

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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: The bravest man...

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: The bravest man...

The bravest man is he who is prepared to cope with present dangers and to wait for a better...

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