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John Ashbery: I don't look...

John Ashbery: I don't look...

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a...

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Ogden Nash: God in His...

Ogden Nash: God in His...

God in His wisdom made the fly
And then forgot to tell us why.


Source: In...

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Ogden Nash: Professional men, they...

Ogden Nash: Professional men, they...

Professional men, they have no cares;
whatever happens, they get theirs.


Source:...

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Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr: Let lessons of...

Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr: Let lessons of...

Let lessons of stern yesterdays . . . be your food, your drink, your rest.

Source:...

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George Moses Horton: Because the brood-sows...

George Moses Horton: Because the brood-sows...

Because the brood-sows left side pigs were black
Whose sable tincture was by nature struck.
Were you by justice...

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Tobias Smollett: I think for...

Tobias Smollett: I think for...

I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.

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Theodore Roethke: In a dark...

Theodore Roethke: In a dark...

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Source: In a Dark Time
-- Theodore...

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Anne Bradstreet: Thou ill-form,d offspring...

Anne Bradstreet: Thou ill-form,d offspring...

Thou ill-form,d offspring of my feeble brain . . .

Source: From the Author to her...

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Anne Bradstreet: A prosperous state...

Anne Bradstreet: A prosperous state...

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

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Thomas Campbell: But Hope, the...

Thomas Campbell: But Hope, the...

But Hope, the charmer, linger'd still behind.

Source: Pleasures of Hope, I. line...

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Andrew Marvell: Gather the flowers,...

Andrew Marvell: Gather the flowers,...

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

Source: The Picture of Little T.C. in a...

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Ogden Nash: How easy for...

Ogden Nash: How easy for...

How easy for those who do not bulge
To not overindulge!


Source: A Necessary...

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Antonin Artaud: Tragedy on the...

Antonin Artaud: Tragedy on the...

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

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Antonin Artaud: Destroy yourselves, you...

Antonin Artaud: Destroy yourselves, you...

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no...

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Friedrich von Schiller: It hinders the...

Friedrich von Schiller: It hinders the...

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour...

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Friedrich von Schiller: Man is an...

Friedrich von Schiller: Man is an...

Man is an imitative creature.

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

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Jean Anouilh: What you get...

Jean Anouilh: What you get...

What you get free costs too much.

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

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Jean Anouilh: I like reality....

Jean Anouilh: I like reality....

I like reality. It tastes like bread.

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

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Paul Eldridge: With the stones...

Paul Eldridge: With the stones...

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads for us.

Source: In The...

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Martial: Live thy life...

Martial: Live thy life...

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

Source: Epigrams, 7,...

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