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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: Some men by...

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: Some men by...

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

Source: In Webster's...

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Geoffrey Chaucer: Men love ....

Geoffrey Chaucer: Men love ....

Men love . . . newfangledness.

Source: The Squire's Tale,'' in 'The Canterbury...

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Theodore Roethke: The soul has...

Theodore Roethke: The soul has...

The soul has many motions, body one.

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

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Richard Lovelace: Tell me not,...

Richard Lovelace: Tell me not,...

Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind,
That from the nunnery
Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind,
To war and arms...

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Rupert Brooke: A pulse in...

Rupert Brooke: A pulse in...

A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given.
Her sights and sounds;...

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Stephane Mallarme: The pure work...

Stephane Mallarme: The pure work...

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the...

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May Swenson: Human double-barreled eyes,<br>in...

May Swenson: Human double-barreled eyes,
in...

Human double-barreled eyes,
in their narrow blind,
hope to shoot and hit
-- if they can find it
-- the...

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Caius Valerius Catullus: Oh, this age!...

Caius Valerius Catullus: Oh, this age!...

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!

Source: From Rand Lindsly's HUGE...

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Caius Valerius Catullus: I hate and...

Caius Valerius Catullus: I hate and...

I hate and love. You may ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it and am in torment.

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Robert Bridges: Masefield's sonnets? Ah...

Robert Bridges: Masefield's sonnets? Ah...

Masefield's sonnets? Ah yes. Very nice. Pure Shakespeare. Masefield's 'Reynard the Fox'? Very nice, too. Pure Chaucer....

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Andrew Marvell: How vainly men...

Andrew Marvell: How vainly men...

How vainly men themselves amaze
To win the palm, the oak, or bays.


Source: The...

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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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Wilfred Owen: Above all I...

Wilfred Owen: Above all I...

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the...

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Stevie Smith: Fourteen-year-old, why must...

Stevie Smith: Fourteen-year-old, why must...

Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote,
Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat?
I'm fourteen years...

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: The heart of...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: The heart of...

The heart of a woman falls back with the night,
And enters some alien cage in its plight,
And tries to forget it...

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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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Edmund Waller: Why came I...

Edmund Waller: Why came I...

Why came I so untimely forth
Into a world which, wanting thee,
Could entertain us with no worth
Or shadow of...

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Edmund Waller: Though with judgment...

Edmund Waller: Though with judgment...

Though with judgment we on things reflect,
Our will determines, not our intellect.


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Joseph Brodsky: A poet is...

Joseph Brodsky: A poet is...

A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the...

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: In Russia all...

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: In Russia all...

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Source: A Precocious...

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