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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: Fortune sides with...

Virgil: Fortune sides with...

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Source: Aeneid.
-- Virgil, (Oct 15 70BC-19BC),...

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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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Frances Watkins Harper: I find,...

Frances Watkins Harper: I find,...

I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . ....

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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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Robert Bly: By the time...

Robert Bly: By the time...

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in...

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Jean de LaFontaine: From a distance...

Jean de LaFontaine: From a distance...

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

Source: In Wisdom of the...

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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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Anne Sexton: In a dream...

Anne Sexton: In a dream...

In a dream you are never eighty.

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

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Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo: Make no sound,...

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo: Make no sound,...

Make no sound, do not speak: eyes, heart, mind dreams are about to explore a forest . . . . A secret but tangible...

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Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo: I gave the...

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo: I gave the...

I gave the ripe fruit to the Cherished One and the one-so-beautiful-as-to-bring happiness to the Beloved. But I...

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William Wordsworth: Is there not<br>An...

William Wordsworth: Is there not
An...

Is there not
An art, a music, and a stream of words
That shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of...

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William Wordsworth: My brain<br>Worked with...

William Wordsworth: My brain
Worked with...

My brain
Worked with a dim and undetermined sense
Of unknown modes of being.


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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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Friedrich von Schiller: Opposition inflames the...

Friedrich von Schiller: Opposition inflames the...

Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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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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John Lyly: Where the mind...

John Lyly: Where the mind...

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Paul Eldridge: There are those...

Paul Eldridge: There are those...

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the...

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