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Frances Watkins Harper: Apparent failure may...

Frances Watkins Harper: Apparent failure may...

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit...

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William Carlos Williams: By listening to...

William Carlos Williams: By listening to...

By listening to the language of his locality the poet learns his craft. It is his function to lift, by the use of his...

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John Clare: The present is...

John Clare: The present is...

The present is the funeral of the past,
And man the living sepulchre of life.


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Dante: Art, as far...

Dante: Art, as far...

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's...

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John Donne: Who are a...

John Donne: Who are a...

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your...

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Thomas Moore: The world is...

Thomas Moore: The world is...

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams...

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Sophocles: One must learn...

Sophocles: One must learn...

One must learn by doing the thing; though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Art is refining...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Art is refining...

Art is refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

Source: In...

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Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo: Young man, how...

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo: Young man, how...

Young man, how many loves have you? I have hardly any, cousin, for they are only seven: the first, who cuts my...

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May Swenson: The summer that...

May Swenson: The summer that...

The summer that I was ten --
Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must
have been a long one...

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Philip James Bailey: The worst men...

Philip James Bailey: The worst men...

The worst men often give the best advice.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Elizabeth Bishop: Icebergs behoove the...

Elizabeth Bishop: Icebergs behoove the...

Icebergs behoove the soul (Both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair,...

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Francis Thompson: Summer set lip...

Francis Thompson: Summer set lip...

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.


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Novalis: Poetry heals the...

Novalis: Poetry heals the...

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Stevie Smith: The Englishwoman is...

Stevie Smith: The Englishwoman is...

The Englishwoman is so refined
She has no bosom and no behind.


Source: This...

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Emma Lazarus: Still on Israel's...

Emma Lazarus: Still on Israel's...

Still on Israel's head forlorn,
Every nation heaps its scorn.


Source: The...

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Diane Wakoski: Poems come from...

Diane Wakoski: Poems come from...

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

Source: With Words, The Motorcycle Betrayal...

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Diane Wakoski: I write in...

Diane Wakoski: I write in...

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it...

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Eliza Cook: Better build schoolrooms...

Eliza Cook: Better build schoolrooms...

Better build schoolrooms for the boy,
Than cells and gibbets for the man.


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Tobias Smollett: Thy spirit, Independence,...

Tobias Smollett: Thy spirit, Independence,...

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share;
Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye,
Thy steps I follow with my bosom...

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