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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Reviewers, with some...

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Reviewers, with some...

Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Words, like nature,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Words, like nature,...

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Source: In The...

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Virgil: Time bears away...

Virgil: Time bears away...

Time bears away all things, even the mind.

Source: Eclogues.
-- Virgil, (Oct 15...

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Walt Whitman: To have great...

Walt Whitman: To have great...

To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

Source: Notes Left Over,...

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George Gordon Byron: Tis pleasant, sure,...

George Gordon Byron: Tis pleasant, sure,...

Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing...

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Emily Dickinson: Nature is what...

Emily Dickinson: Nature is what...

Nature is what we know -
Yet have not art to say -
So impotent our wisdom is
To her...

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Robert Bly: When a father,...

Robert Bly: When a father,...

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his...

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Edwin A Robinson: Youth sees too...

Edwin A Robinson: Youth sees too...

Youth sees too far to see how near it is
To seeing farther.


Source: In The...

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Martin Tupper: The choicest pleasures...

Martin Tupper: The choicest pleasures...

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Source: In Wisdom...

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Countee Cullen: My poetry, I...

Countee Cullen: My poetry, I...

My poetry, I should think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

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Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo: One day some...

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo: One day some...

One day some young poet
will make your impossible wish come true
by knowing your books,
books as rare as...

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Thornton Wilder: But there comes...

Thornton Wilder: But there comes...

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not -- a...

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Antonin Artaud: Never tire yourself...

Antonin Artaud: Never tire yourself...

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your...

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Antonin Artaud: The theater, which...

Antonin Artaud: The theater, which...

The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything --gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness...

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Friedrich von Schiller: What reason, like...

Friedrich von Schiller: What reason, like...

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a...

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Friedrich von Schiller: Dare to be...

Friedrich von Schiller: Dare to be...

Dare to be wrong and to dream.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Friedrich von Schiller: The voice of...

Friedrich von Schiller: The voice of...

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Jean Anouilh: Life is a...

Jean Anouilh: Life is a...

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books -- but it is terrible when one has to live...

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Jean Anouilh: Talent is like...

Jean Anouilh: Talent is like...

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? -- a hoax fabricated by poets for their...

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Jean Anouilh: Everything ends this...

Jean Anouilh: Everything ends this...

Everything ends this way in France. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, affairs of state -- everything...

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