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Joseph Brodsky: If a poet...

Joseph Brodsky: If a poet...

If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice....

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Henry John Newbolt: Drake he's in...

Henry John Newbolt: Drake he's in...

Drake he's in his hammock till the great Armadas come.
(Capten, art tha sleepin' there below?)
Slung atween the...

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Delmore Schwartz: Major writing is...

Delmore Schwartz: Major writing is...

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

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Anne Bradstreet: And he...

Anne Bradstreet: And he...

And he that knowes the most, cloth still bemoan
He knows not all that here is to be...

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Robert Burns: Dare to be...

Robert Burns: Dare to be...

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Joyce Kilmer: For nothing keeps...

Joyce Kilmer: For nothing keeps...

For nothing keeps a poet
In his high singing mood
Like unappeasable hunger
For unattainable...

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May Swenson: Human double-barreled eyes,<br>in...

May Swenson: Human double-barreled eyes,
in...

Human double-barreled eyes,
in their narrow blind,
hope to shoot and hit
-- if they can find it
-- the...

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Caius Valerius Catullus: I hate and...

Caius Valerius Catullus: I hate and...

I hate and love. You may ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it and am in torment.

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Elizabeth Bishop: The art of...

Elizabeth Bishop: The art of...

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is...

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Andrew Marvell: This delicious Solitude....

Andrew Marvell: This delicious Solitude....

This delicious Solitude.

Source: The Garden.
-- Andrew Marvell, (Mar 31...

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Francis Thompson: Summer set lip...

Francis Thompson: Summer set lip...

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.


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Vachel Lindsay: To live in...

Vachel Lindsay: To live in...

To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

Source: In Correct Quotes...

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George Moses Horton: I leave my...

George Moses Horton: I leave my...

I leave my parents here behind
And all my friends to love resigned
'Tis grief to go, but death to...

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: I battered the...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: I battered the...

I battered the cordons around me
And cradled my wings on the breeze,
Then soared to the uttermost...

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: The heart of...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: The heart of...

The heart of a woman falls back with the night,
And enters some alien cage in its plight,
And tries to forget it...

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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: No man is...

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: No man is...

No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.

Source: Pharsalia.
--...

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Hesiod: We know how...

Hesiod: We know how...

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true...

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Hesiod: Potter is jealous...

Hesiod: Potter is jealous...

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet...

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Joseph Brodsky: Every individual ought...

Joseph Brodsky: Every individual ought...

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a...

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Joseph Brodsky: A poet is...

Joseph Brodsky: A poet is...

A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the...

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