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Louise A Bogan: Because language is...

Louise A Bogan: Because language is...

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a...

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Louise A Bogan: The intellectual is...

Louise A Bogan: The intellectual is...

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in...

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Louise A Bogan: [Your work] is...

Louise A Bogan: [Your work] is...

[Your work] is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

Source: In...

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Aeschylus: It is not...

Aeschylus: It is not...

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Source:...

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Hannah Cowley: O lord! your...

Hannah Cowley: O lord! your...

O lord! your wise men are the greatest fools upon earth; they reason about their enjoyments, and analyse their...

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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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Cecil Frances Alexander: Once in royal...

Cecil Frances Alexander: Once in royal...

Once in royal David's city
Stood a lowly cattle shed,
Where a Mother laid her Baby
In a manger for His...

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George Moses Horton: My genius from...

George Moses Horton: My genius from...

My genius from a boy
Has fluttered like a bird within my heart;
But could not thus confined her power...

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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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Joseph Brodsky: A language ....

Joseph Brodsky: A language ....

A language . . . is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

Source: In...

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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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Henry John Newbolt: Now the sunset...

Henry John Newbolt: Now the sunset...

Now the sunset breezes shiver,
And she's fading down the river,
But in England's song for ever
She's the...

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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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Richard Lovelace: If I have...

Richard Lovelace: If I have...

If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free,
-- Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such...

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Ogden Nash: Oh, what a...

Ogden Nash: Oh, what a...

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave
When they think that their children are naive.


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Wole Soyinka: Suddenly the world...

Wole Soyinka: Suddenly the world...

Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind

Source: Kongi's...

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Imamu Amiri Baraka: A man is...

Imamu Amiri Baraka: A man is...

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

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Neil Simon: People with honorary...

Neil Simon: People with honorary...

People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new...

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John Keats: The only means...

John Keats: The only means...

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing --to let the mind be a...

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Alexander Pope: It is with...

Alexander Pope: It is with...

It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his...

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