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Thomas Campbell: Truth ever lovely...

Thomas Campbell: Truth ever lovely...

Truth ever lovely - since the world began,
The foe of tyrants and the friend of man.


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Stephane Mallarme: You don't make...

Stephane Mallarme: You don't make...

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Robert Bridges: For beauty being...

Robert Bridges: For beauty being...

For beauty being the best of all we know
Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims
Of...

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Andrew Marvell: I have a...

Andrew Marvell: I have a...

I have a garden of my own,
But so with roses overgrown,
And lilies, that you would it guess
To be a little...

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Novalis: The artist belongs...

Novalis: The artist belongs...

The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Source: In The...

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Wilfred Owen: Red lips are...

Wilfred Owen: Red lips are...

Red lips are not so red
As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.


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Jean de la Fontaine: But the shortest...

Jean de la Fontaine: But the shortest...

But the shortest works are always the best.

Source: Fables, X, 'Les Lapins'.
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Stevie Smith: Marred pleasure's best,...

Stevie Smith: Marred pleasure's best,...

Marred pleasure's best, shadow makes the sun strong.

Source: The Queen and the...

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Emma Lazarus: Give me your...

Emma Lazarus: Give me your...

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming...

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Emma Lazarus: Here at our...

Emma Lazarus: Here at our...

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned...

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Emma Lazarus: His cup is...

Emma Lazarus: His cup is...

His cup is gall, his meat is tears,
His passion lasts a thousand years.


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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Vladimir Mayakovsky: No gray hairs...

Vladimir Mayakovsky: No gray hairs...

No gray hairs streak my soul,
no grandfatherly fondness there!
I shake the world with the might of my...

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Delmore Schwartz: I should like...

Delmore Schwartz: I should like...

I should like you to consider this letter as a resignation; I want to resign as one of your most studious and faithful...

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Alexander Pope: A person who...

Alexander Pope: A person who...

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor...

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Alexander Pope: Trust not yourself,...

Alexander Pope: Trust not yourself,...

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know. Make use of every friend and every foe.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tis better to...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tis better to...

Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.


Source: In...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The noblest answer...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The noblest answer...

The noblest answer unto such,
Is kindly silence when they brawl.


Source: Altered...

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Antonin Artaud: So long as...

Antonin Artaud: So long as...

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to...

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Antonin Artaud: It is not...

Antonin Artaud: It is not...

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time...

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