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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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Aphra Behn: He that knew...

Aphra Behn: He that knew...

He that knew all that ever learning writ,
Knew only this -- that he knew nothing yet.


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William Carlos Williams: Times change and...

William Carlos Williams: Times change and...

Times change and forms and their meanings alter. Thus new poems are necessary. Their forms must be discovered in the...

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Francis Quarles: If thy words...

Francis Quarles: If thy words...

If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may...

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Edmund Spenser: The poets' scrolls...

Edmund Spenser: The poets' scrolls...

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by...

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Rupert Brooke: A pulse in...

Rupert Brooke: A pulse in...

A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given.
Her sights and sounds;...

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Alan Alda: The creative is...

Alan Alda: The creative is...

The creative is the place where no one else have ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the...

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Charlie Sheen: Usually in a...

Charlie Sheen: Usually in a...

Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.

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Jack Nicholson: In my last...

Jack Nicholson: In my last...

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half...

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Ralph Richardson: Acting is the...

Ralph Richardson: Acting is the...

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Caius Valerius Catullus: It is difficult...

Caius Valerius Catullus: It is difficult...

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Elizabeth Bishop: All my life...

Elizabeth Bishop: All my life...

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like [the] sandpiper -- just running down the edges of different...

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Delmore Schwartz: Even paranoids have...

Delmore Schwartz: Even paranoids have...

Even paranoids have real enemies.

Source:
-- Delmore Schwartz, ( 1913-1966),...

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James A Garfield: [The President is]...

James A Garfield: [The President is]...

[The President is] the last person in the world to know what the people really want and...

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George III: A traitor is...

George III: A traitor is...

A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.

Source: In The Stein and Day...

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Hank Williams, Sr: If a song...

Hank Williams, Sr: If a song...

If a song can't be written in 20 minutes, it ain't worth writing.

Source: In The...

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Earl Nightingale: The amount of...

Earl Nightingale: The amount of...

The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and...

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Benjamin Harrison: The bud of...

Benjamin Harrison: The bud of...

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

Source: Speech, 18 Sep 1888.
--...

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Benjamin Harrison: Great lives never...

Benjamin Harrison: Great lives never...

Great lives never go out; they go on.

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

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Gerald Ford: If I went...

Gerald Ford: If I went...

If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas: learning to write and to speak before an audience....

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