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George Moses Horton: Oh! that my...

George Moses Horton: Oh! that my...

Oh! that my soul had winged its flight,
When first I saw the morning light,
To worlds of...

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Theodore Roethke: Time marks us...

Theodore Roethke: Time marks us...

Time marks us while we are marking time.

Source: Straw for the Fire
-- Theodore...

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Rupert Brooke: Just now the...

Rupert Brooke: Just now the...

Just now the lilac is in bloom
All before my little room.


Source: The Old...

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Andrew Marvell: The grave's a...

Andrew Marvell: The grave's a...

The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.


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Ogden Nash: Middle age is...

Ogden Nash: Middle age is...

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone...

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Sean O'Casey: The world's a...

Sean O'Casey: The world's a...

The world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Source:
-- Sean...

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Jean Anouilh: Life is very...

Jean Anouilh: Life is very...

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

Source:...

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Louise A Bogan: In a time...

Louise A Bogan: In a time...

In a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in...

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Miguel de Cervantes: Tell me what...

Miguel de Cervantes: Tell me what...

Tell me what company thou keepest, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Source: Don...

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Miguel de Cervantes: The proof of...

Miguel de Cervantes: The proof of...

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole...

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Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly...

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Vita Sackville-West: I suppose the...

Vita Sackville-West: I suppose the...

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to...

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Vita Sackville-West: Ambition, old as...

Vita Sackville-West: Ambition, old as...

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

Source: 'No...

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Sean O'Casey: The hallway of...

Sean O'Casey: The hallway of...

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be...

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Terence Rattigan: She has ideas...

Terence Rattigan: She has ideas...

She has ideas above her station . . . How would you say that in French? . . . you can't say au-dessus de sa gare. It...

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Oscar Wilde: When the gods...

Oscar Wilde: When the gods...

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Source: Sir Robert...

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Oscar Wilde: But what is...

Oscar Wilde: But what is...

But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ... Journalism is unreadable, and literature is not...

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Paul Eldridge: Man is ready...

Paul Eldridge: Man is ready...

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that the idea is not quite clear to him.

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Vita Sackville-West: Among the many...

Vita Sackville-West: Among the many...

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin...

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George Gordon Byron: I am sure...

George Gordon Byron: I am sure...

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

Source: Letter, 20 Jan. 1811;...

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