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It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are...
There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and...
If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at...
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
Source:...
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl...
Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast
And the love we swore would last for an age seems...
We'd like to fight but we fear defeat,
We'd like to work but we're feeling too weak,
We'd like to be sick but...
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was...
Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart...
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
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No one but a fool is always right.
Source: In
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high...
Between
Our birth and death we may touch understanding
As a moth brushes a window with its...
I sometimes think
His critical judgement is so exquisite
It leaves us nothing to admire except his...
I know your cause is lost, but in the heart
Of all right causes is a cause that cannot...
How nature loves the incomplete. She knows
If she drew a conclusion it would finish...
It's always our touches of vanity
That manage to betray us.
Source: In Webster's...