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Edmund Spenser: Sweete Themmes! runne...

Edmund Spenser: Sweete Themmes! runne...

Sweete Themmes! runne softly, till I end my Song.

Source: Prothalamion.
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Richard Armour: [John Foster Dulles]...

Richard Armour: [John Foster Dulles]...

[John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly.

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Countee Cullen: Your love to...

Countee Cullen: Your love to...

Your love to me was like an unread book . . .

Source: Bright Bindings, The Black...

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Robert Frost: A poem. ....

Robert Frost: A poem. ....

A poem. . . begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. . . . It finds the...

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Scott Alexander: Understand that most...

Scott Alexander: Understand that most...

Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you...

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Caius Valerius Catullus: For the godly...

Caius Valerius Catullus: For the godly...

For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

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Caius Valerius Catullus: It is difficult...

Caius Valerius Catullus: It is difficult...

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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John Ashbery: There is the...

John Ashbery: There is the...

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation...

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Philip James Bailey: We live in...

Philip James Bailey: We live in...

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives...

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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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Andrew Marvell: Who can foretell...

Andrew Marvell: Who can foretell...

Who can foretell for what high cause
This darling of the Gods was born?


Source:...

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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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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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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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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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Josephine Baker: Beautiful? It's all...

Josephine Baker: Beautiful? It's all...

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest . . . beautiful, no. Amusing,...

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Donna Reed: Remember the night...

Donna Reed: Remember the night...

Remember the night we broke the window in this old house? This is what I wished for.

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Vera-Ellen: What does it...

Vera-Ellen: What does it...

What does it matter? They're both famous.

Source: As Judy Haynes, discussing which...

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Candice Bergen: Living in L.A....

Candice Bergen: Living in L.A....

Living in L.A. is like not having a date on Saturday night.

Source: In The Book of...

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P T Barnum: There's a sucker...

P T Barnum: There's a sucker...

There's a sucker born every minute.

Source: Attr., but in fact coined by...

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