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Andrew Marvell: He nothing common...

Andrew Marvell: He nothing common...

He nothing common did or mean
Upon that memorable scene,
But with his keener eye
The axe's edge did...

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Andrew Marvell: I have a...

Andrew Marvell: I have a...

I have a garden of my own,
But so with roses overgrown,
And lilies, that you would it guess
To be a little...

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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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Francis Thompson: All things by...

Francis Thompson: All things by...

All things by immortal power,
Near and Far
Hiddenly
To each other linked are,
That thou canst not stir a...

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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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Vachel Lindsay: Life is a...

Vachel Lindsay: Life is a...

Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

Source: The Chinese Nightingale.
-- Vachel...

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Emma Lazarus: Here at our...

Emma Lazarus: Here at our...

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned...

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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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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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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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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: A poet's autobiography...

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: A poet's autobiography...

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.

Source:...

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: In Russia all...

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: In Russia all...

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Source: A Precocious...

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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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Edith Sitwell: My personal hobbies...

Edith Sitwell: My personal hobbies...

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Source:...

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Edith Sitwell: I am patient...

Edith Sitwell: I am patient...

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Source: In...

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Thomas Campbell: While Memory watches...

Thomas Campbell: While Memory watches...

While Memory watches o'er the sad review
Of joys that faded like the morning dew.


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