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Ogden Nash: Every New Year...

Ogden Nash: Every New Year...

Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

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Ogden Nash: To be an...

Ogden Nash: To be an...

To be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.

Source:...

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Ogden Nash: My verse represents...

Ogden Nash: My verse represents...

My verse represents a handle I can grasp in order not to yield to the centrifugal forces which are trying to throw me...

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Ogden Nash: They take the...

Ogden Nash: They take the...

They take the paper and they read the headlines.. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines....

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Ogden Nash: Candy,<br>Is dandy,<br>But Liquor,<br>Is...

Ogden Nash: Candy,
Is dandy,
But Liquor,
Is...

Candy,
Is dandy,
But Liquor,
Is quicker.


Source: Reflections on...

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Ogden Nash: The turtle lives...

Ogden Nash: The turtle lives...

The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks
Which practically conceal its sex.
I think it clever of the turtle
In...

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Alexander Pope: Fools rush in...

Alexander Pope: Fools rush in...

Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.

Source: An Essay on Criticism ...

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William Wordsworth: Mighty poets in...

William Wordsworth: Mighty poets in...

Mighty poets in their misery dead.

Source: Resolution and Independence, 17
--...

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William Wordsworth: For by superior...

William Wordsworth: For by superior...

For by superior energies; more strict
Affiance in each other; faith more firm
In their unhallowed principles,...

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William Wordsworth: The immeasurable height<br>Of...

William Wordsworth: The immeasurable height
Of...

The immeasurable height
Of woods decaying, never to be decayed,
The stationary blasts of...

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William Wordsworth: Where the statue...

William Wordsworth: Where the statue...

Where the statue stood
Of Newton with his prism and silent face,
The marble index of a mind for ever
Voyaging...

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George Gordon Byron: Nothing can confound...

George Gordon Byron: Nothing can confound...

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Source: In The...

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Robert Browning: It is best...

Robert Browning: It is best...

It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Emily Dickinson: Much Madness is...

Emily Dickinson: Much Madness is...

Much Madness is divinest Sense --
To a discerning Eye --
Much Sense --the starkest Madness...

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Emily Dickinson: Nature, like us...

Emily Dickinson: Nature, like us...

Nature, like us is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.


Source: The Complete...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: As the many-wintered...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: As the many-wintered...

As the many-wintered crow that leads the clanging rookery home.

Source: Locksley...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Her eyes are...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Her eyes are...

Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.

Source: In Memoriam, 32 (Note: the stanza...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O that 'twere...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O that 'twere...

O that 'twere possible
After long grief and pain
To find the arms of my true love
Round me once...

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William Wordsworth: All good poetry...

William Wordsworth: All good poetry...

All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in...

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Oscar Wilde: It is a...

Oscar Wilde: It is a...

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the...

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