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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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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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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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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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Wilfred Owen: All a poet...

Wilfred Owen: All a poet...

All a poet can do today is warn.

Source: Poems.
-- Wilfred Owen, (Mar 18...

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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: Your world is...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: Your world is...

Your world is as big as you make it.

Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet...

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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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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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Paul Verlaine: And here is...

Paul Verlaine: And here is...

And here is my heart which beats only for you.

Source: Romances sans Paroles.
--...

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Alexander Smith: A man's real...

Alexander Smith: A man's real...

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he...

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Anne Bradstreet: Thou ill-form,d offspring...

Anne Bradstreet: Thou ill-form,d offspring...

Thou ill-form,d offspring of my feeble brain . . .

Source: From the Author to her...

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Louis Aragon: There are strange...

Louis Aragon: There are strange...

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Source:...

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Andrew Marvell: Annihilating all that's...

Andrew Marvell: Annihilating all that's...

Annihilating all that's made
To a green thought in a green shade.


Source: The...

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Wole Soyinka: Suddenly the world...

Wole Soyinka: Suddenly the world...

Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind

Source: Kongi's...

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Tristan Bernard: To live happily...

Tristan Bernard: To live happily...

To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.

Source: In...

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Colley Cibber: Prithee don't screw...

Colley Cibber: Prithee don't screw...

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Source: Narcissa,...

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Robert Browning: Grow old along...

Robert Browning: Grow old along...

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was...

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Percy Bysshe Shelley: The more we...

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The more we...

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

Source: In Instant Quotation...

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Virgil: Fortune sides with...

Virgil: Fortune sides with...

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Source: Aeneid.
-- Virgil, (Oct 15 70BC-19BC),...

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