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Francis Beaumont: Nothing's so dainty...

Francis Beaumont: Nothing's so dainty...

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

Source: The Nice Valour,...

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Ugo Betti: There is no...

Ugo Betti: There is no...

There is no forgiveness in nature.

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

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Hannah Cowley: The charms of...

Hannah Cowley: The charms of...

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they...

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Hannah Cowley: It requires genius...

Hannah Cowley: It requires genius...

It requires genius to make a good pun -- some men of bright parts can't reach it.

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Robert E Sherwood: To be able...

Robert E Sherwood: To be able...

To be able to write a play . . . a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be...

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Stephane Mallarme: The poetic act...

Stephane Mallarme: The poetic act...

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them;...

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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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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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Robert Bridges: When first we...

Robert Bridges: When first we...

When first we met we did not guess
That Love would prove so hard a master.


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Ogden Nash: I would live...

Ogden Nash: I would live...

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance/Were it not for making a living, which is rather a...

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Wilfred Owen: The pallor of...

Wilfred Owen: The pallor of...

The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow...

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Wilfred Owen: And in the...

Wilfred Owen: And in the...

And in the happy no-time of his sleeping
Death took him by the heart.


Source:...

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Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr: O God, give...

Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr: O God, give...

O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.

Source: A Prayer.
-- Joseph...

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: Rise with the...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: Rise with the...

Rise with the hour for which you were made.

Source: Hope.
-- Georgia Douglas...

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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: No man is...

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: No man is...

No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.

Source: Pharsalia.
--...

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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: Boldness can mask...

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: Boldness can mask...

Boldness can mask great fear.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...

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Hesiod: If thou shouldst...

Hesiod: If thou shouldst...

If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become...

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Vladimir Mayakovsky: No gray hairs...

Vladimir Mayakovsky: No gray hairs...

No gray hairs streak my soul,
no grandfatherly fondness there!
I shake the world with the might of my...

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Vladimir Mayakovsky: Comrade life,<br>let us<br>march...

Vladimir Mayakovsky: Comrade life,
let us
march...

Comrade life,
let us
march faster,
March
faster through what's left
of the five-year...

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Joseph Brodsky: Every individual ought...

Joseph Brodsky: Every individual ought...

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a...

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