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Francesco Petrarch: Who naught suspects...

Francesco Petrarch: Who naught suspects...

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

Source: In The Manager's Book of...

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Joaquin Miller: All honor to...

Joaquin Miller: All honor to...

All honor to him who shall win the prize,'
The world has cried for a thousand years;
But to him who tries...

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Edmund Spenser: Beauty is the...

Edmund Spenser: Beauty is the...

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Source: In...

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Richard Armour: In larger things...

Richard Armour: In larger things...

In larger things we are convivial;
What causes trouble is the trivial.


Source:...

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Countee Cullen: The play is...

Countee Cullen: The play is...

The play is done, the crowds depart; and see
That twisted tortured thing hung from a tree,
Swart victim of a...

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Denise Levertov: The poem has...

Denise Levertov: The poem has...

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has kinetic force, it sets in...

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Anne Sexton: Put your ear...

Anne Sexton: Put your ear...

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Janet Erskine Stuart: The great thing...

Janet Erskine Stuart: The great thing...

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got...

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Robert Burns: There is no...

Robert Burns: There is no...

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Source: Attributed.
-- Robert...

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Robert Burns: Some rhyme a...

Robert Burns: Some rhyme a...

Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash;
Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash;
Some rhyme to court the country...

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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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Thomas Campbell: The world was...

Thomas Campbell: The world was...

The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sigh'd--till woman...

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Thomas Campbell: Gentlemen, you must...

Thomas Campbell: Gentlemen, you must...

Gentlemen, you must not mistake me. I admit that he is the sworn foe of our nation, and, if you will, of the whole...

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Joyce Kilmer: The air is...

Joyce Kilmer: The air is...

The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings
The happy earth looks at the sky
And...

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Michael Caine: First of all,...

Michael Caine: First of all,...

First of all, I choose the great [roles], and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't...

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John Ashbery: I like poems...

John Ashbery: I like poems...

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

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Elizabeth Bishop: The art of...

Elizabeth Bishop: The art of...

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is...

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Andrew Marvell: I have a...

Andrew Marvell: I have a...

I have a garden of my own,
But so with roses overgrown,
And lilies, that you would it guess
To be a little...

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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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Francis Thompson: The innocent moon,...

Francis Thompson: The innocent moon,...

The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,
Moves all the labouring surges of the...

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