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The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow...
And in the happy no-time of his sleeping
Death took him by the heart.
Source:...
Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the...
Red lips are not so red
As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
Source: In Correct Quotes...
Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine.
Source: In...
Life is a loom, weaving illusion.
Source: The Chinese Nightingale.
-- Vachel...
I am unjust, but I can strive for justice.
My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness.
I, the unloving, say...
This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: --
To speak of bloody power as right divine,
And call on God to guard...
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe -
Sailed on a river of crystal light
Into a...
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps...
All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't...
All through the five acts he played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to...
Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.
Source: In...
This fellow did not see further than his own nose.
Source: Fables, III, 'Le Renard...
He told me never to sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be...
But the shortest works are always the best.
Source: Fables, X, 'Les Lapins'.
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Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
Source: Fables, II,...