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Edith Sitwell: Good taste is...

Edith Sitwell: Good taste is...

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Source: In Quote (Anderson), 24 Mar...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: At painful times,...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: At painful times,...

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent...

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William Wordsworth: Getting and spending,...

William Wordsworth: Getting and spending,...

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Source: Miscellaneous Sonnets,...

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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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Robert Browning: Stung by the...

Robert Browning: Stung by the...

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

Source: A Death in the Desert.
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Robert Browning: Grow old along...

Robert Browning: Grow old along...

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was...

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Robert Frost: I shall be...

Robert Frost: I shall be...

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I...

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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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Robert Bly: I have wandered...

Robert Bly: I have wandered...

I have wandered in a face, for hours . . .

Source: In The Concise Columbia...

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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: Still, I have...

John Clare: Still, I have...

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Reading is important -- read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Source:...

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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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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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Thomas Campbell: Tis distance lends...

Thomas Campbell: Tis distance lends...

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.


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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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Scott Alexander: All good is...

Scott Alexander: All good is...

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from...

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Scott Alexander: The basic rule...

Scott Alexander: The basic rule...

The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.

Source: In The...

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Eliza Cook: Though language forms...

Eliza Cook: Though language forms...

Though language forms the preacher,
'Tis good works make the man.


Source: Good...

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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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