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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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Basil Bunting: Sooner or later...

Basil Bunting: Sooner or later...

Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.

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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: Red lips are...

Wilfred Owen: Red lips are...

Red lips are not so red
As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.


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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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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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Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr: I am so...

Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr: I am so...

I am so tired and weary,
So tired of endless fight,
So weary of waiting the dawn
And finding endless...

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Tobias Smollett: Some folk are...

Tobias Smollett: Some folk are...

Some folk are wise, and some are otherwise.

Source: Roderick Random, Ch. 6.
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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: Greatness collapses of...

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: Greatness collapses of...

Greatness collapses of itself, such is the limit the gods have set to the growth of prosperous...

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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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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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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: What does little...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: What does little...

What does little birdie say
In her nest at peep of day?


Source: Song
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Children use the...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Children use the...

Children use the fist
Until they are of the age to use the brain.


Source: In...

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Charlie Sheen: Life all comes...

Charlie Sheen: Life all comes...

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

Source: Just before...

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Richard Burton: If you're going...

Richard Burton: If you're going...

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

Source: On his films,...

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John Barrymore: I am thinking...

John Barrymore: I am thinking...

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for...

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John Barrymore: America is the...

John Barrymore: America is the...

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two...

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Humphrey Bogart: Louis, I think...

Humphrey Bogart: Louis, I think...

Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Source: Casablanca,...

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Cecil Frances Alexander: When the friends...

Cecil Frances Alexander: When the friends...

When the friends we love the best
Lie in their churchyard bed,
We must not cry to bitterly
Over the happy...

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Philip James Bailey: We live in...

Philip James Bailey: We live in...

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives...

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