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Emily Dickinson: The distance that...

Emily Dickinson: The distance that...

The distance that the dead have gone
Does not at first appear --
Their coming back seems possible
For many an...

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Emily Dickinson: This is the...

Emily Dickinson: This is the...

This is the Hour of Lead --
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow --
First --Chill...

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Emily Dickinson: He ate and...

Emily Dickinson: He ate and...

He ate and drank the precious Words,
His Spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his...

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Emily Dickinson: Let us go...

Emily Dickinson: Let us go...

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Source: Attributed last words; in A Certain World,...

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Emily Dickinson: I took one...

Emily Dickinson: I took one...

I took one Draught of Life --
I'll tell you what I paid --
Precisely an existence --
The market price, they...

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Ogden Nash: Marriage is the...

Ogden Nash: Marriage is the...

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets...

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Ogden Nash: Some debts are...

Ogden Nash: Some debts are...

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring...

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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: And one of...

Ogden Nash: And one of...

And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet...

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Ogden Nash: Tell me, O...

Ogden Nash: Tell me, O...

Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,
Is those things arms, or is they legs?
I marvel at thee, Octopus; If I were thou,...

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Robert Frost: A man will...

Robert Frost: A man will...

A man will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body -- the...

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Robert Frost: But I have...

Robert Frost: But I have...

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I...

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Robert Frost: I alone of...

Robert Frost: I alone of...

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of...

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Robert Frost: Life is tons...

Robert Frost: Life is tons...

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation... Then,...

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Robert Frost: My apple trees...

Robert Frost: My apple trees...

My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences...

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Robert Frost: The first thing...

Robert Frost: The first thing...

The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to...

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Robert Frost: The greatest thing...

Robert Frost: The greatest thing...

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended -- and not to take a hint when a hint...

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Robert Frost: There is the...

Robert Frost: There is the...

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I heard the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I heard the...

I heard the water lapping on the crag,
And the long ripple washing in the reeds.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: An English home...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: An English home...

An English home - gray twilight poured
On dewy pastures, dewy trees,
Softer than sleep - all things in order...

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