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Edith Sitwell: [T]he man of...

Edith Sitwell: [T]he man of...

[T]he man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are...

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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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Louis Aragon: Fear of error...

Louis Aragon: Fear of error...

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes...

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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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Francis Thompson: Nothing begins and...

Francis Thompson: Nothing begins and...

Nothing begins and nothing ends
That is not paid with moan;
For we are born in others' pain.
And perish in...

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Vachel Lindsay: I am unjust,...

Vachel Lindsay: I am unjust,...

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice.
My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness.
I, the unloving, say...

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Eliza Cook: I love it,...

Eliza Cook: I love it,...

I love it, I love it; and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?


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George Moses Horton: Because the brood-sows...

George Moses Horton: Because the brood-sows...

Because the brood-sows left side pigs were black
Whose sable tincture was by nature struck.
Were you by justice...

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: I battered the...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: I battered the...

I battered the cordons around me
And cradled my wings on the breeze,
Then soared to the uttermost...

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Paul Verlaine: Music before all...

Paul Verlaine: Music before all...

Music before all else,
and for that choose the irregular,
which is vaguer and melts better into the...

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Geoffrey Chaucer: No-wher so bisy...

Geoffrey Chaucer: No-wher so bisy...

No-wher so bisy a man as he ther nas,
And yet he semed bisier than he was.


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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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Henry John Newbolt: There's a breathless...

Henry John Newbolt: There's a breathless...

There's a breathless hush in the Close tonight -
Ten to make and the match to win -
A bumping pitch and a...

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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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Jenny Joseph: I shall sit...

Jenny Joseph: I shall sit...

I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my...

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Thomas Campbell: Triumphal arch, that...

Thomas Campbell: Triumphal arch, that...

Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky
When storms prepare to part,
I ask not proud Philosophy
To teach me what...

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Marlon Brando: The only reason...

Marlon Brando: The only reason...

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the...

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Cary Grant: I pretended to...

Cary Grant: I pretended to...

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became...

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Michael Douglas: I'm impressed with...

Michael Douglas: I'm impressed with...

I'm impressed with people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is...

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John Russell: Henry Moore was...

John Russell: Henry Moore was...

Henry Moore was . . . the Number 1 choice whenever a public sculpture was needed. . . . It was thought that a large...

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