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Walt Whitman: The art of...

Walt Whitman: The art of...

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is...

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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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Dante: Nature is the...

Dante: Nature is the...

Nature is the art of God eternal.

Source: In The New Webster's Dictionary of...

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Jean de LaFontaine: From a distance...

Jean de LaFontaine: From a distance...

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

Source: In Wisdom of the...

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Thomas Moore: My only books,...

Thomas Moore: My only books,...

My only books,
Were Woman's looks,
And Folly's all they taught me.


Source:...

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Christina Rossetti: So now in...

Christina Rossetti: So now in...

So now in patience I possess
My soul year after tedious year,
Content to take the lowest place
The place...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: As you get...

Gwendolyn Brooks: As you get...

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet...

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Countee Cullen: So in the...

Countee Cullen: So in the...

So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds,
And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.


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Allen Ginsberg: Whoever controls the...

Allen Ginsberg: Whoever controls the...

Whoever controls the media -- the images -- controls the culture.

Source: From an...

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Edith Sitwell: Poetry ennobles the...

Edith Sitwell: Poetry ennobles the...

Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell....

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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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Rupert Brooke: Breathless, we flung...

Rupert Brooke: Breathless, we flung...

Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill,
Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely...

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Samuel Beckett: How can one...

Samuel Beckett: How can one...

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer...

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Robert Frost: A poem begins...

Robert Frost: A poem begins...

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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John Barrymore: When archaeologists discover...

John Barrymore: When archaeologists discover...

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing...

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Alexander Smith: A man gazing...

Alexander Smith: A man gazing...

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

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Ed Howe: People always ask...

Ed Howe: People always ask...

People always ask me, Where were you when Kennedy was shot? Well, I don't have an alibi.

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Fred Allen: A molehill man...

Fred Allen: A molehill man...

A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5...

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Fred Allen: You can take...

Fred Allen: You can take...

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three...

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Beatrice Lillie: I took up...

Beatrice Lillie: I took up...

I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking...

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