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Paul Eldridge: Man is ready...

Paul Eldridge: Man is ready...

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that the idea is not quite clear to him.

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Thomas Tusser: Some respite to...

Thomas Tusser: Some respite to...

Some respite to husbands the weather may send,
But housewives' affairs have never an...

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Thomas Tusser: In doing of...

Thomas Tusser: In doing of...

In doing of either, let wit bear a stroke,
For buying or selling of pig in a poke.


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Louise A Bogan: Life and death...

Louise A Bogan: Life and death...

Life and death occur, as they must, but they are all bound up with love and hatred, in the individual bosom, and it is...

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Louise A Bogan: I cannot believe...

Louise A Bogan: I cannot believe...

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world...

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Charlotte Bronte: The writer who...

Charlotte Bronte: The writer who...

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time...

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Charlotte Bronte: Look twice before...

Charlotte Bronte: Look twice before...

Look twice before you leap.

Source: Shirley, ch. 9, 1849.
-- Charlotte Bronte,...

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Aeschylus: It is in...

Aeschylus: It is in...

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

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Terence Rattigan: To face life...

Terence Rattigan: To face life...

To face life without hope can mean to live without despair.

Source: The Deep Blue...

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Terence Rattigan: A novelist may...

Terence Rattigan: A novelist may...

A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a...

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Joyce Kilmer: I think that...

Joyce Kilmer: I think that...

I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can...

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Joyce Kilmer: There is no...

Joyce Kilmer: There is no...

There is no peace to be taken
With poets who are young,
For they worry about the wars to be fought
and the...

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Cecil Frances Alexander: When the friends...

Cecil Frances Alexander: When the friends...

When the friends we love the best
Lie in their churchyard bed,
We must not cry to bitterly
Over the happy...

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May Swenson: I was the...

May Swenson: I was the...

I was the horse and the rider . . .

Source: The Centaur, Sts. I & 2, To Mix with...

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Basil Bunting: The mystic purchases...

Basil Bunting: The mystic purchases...

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and...

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Elizabeth Bishop: The iceberg cuts...

Elizabeth Bishop: The iceberg cuts...

The iceberg cuts its facets from within
Like jewelry from a grave.


Source: The...

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Arthur Hugh Clough: Tis better to...

Arthur Hugh Clough: Tis better to...

Tis better to have fought and lost,
Than never to have fought at all.


Source:...

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William Watson: Pain with the...

William Watson: Pain with the...

Pain with the thousand teeth.

Source: The Dream of Man.
-- William Watson, (Aug...

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Diane Wakoski: Poems reveal secrets...

Diane Wakoski: Poems reveal secrets...

Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets...

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Eliza Cook: Why should we...

Eliza Cook: Why should we...

Why should we strive, with cynic frown,
To knock their fairy castles down?


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