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John Keats: Praise or blame...

John Keats: Praise or blame...

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic...

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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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Sophocles: To a man...

Sophocles: To a man...

To a man who is afraid everything rustles.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Reading is important -- read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Source:...

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Rupert Brooke: A book may...

Rupert Brooke: A book may...

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too...

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Louis Aragon: Fear of error...

Louis Aragon: Fear of error...

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes...

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Caius Valerius Catullus: I hate and...

Caius Valerius Catullus: I hate and...

I hate and love. You may ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it and am in torment.

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John Ashbery: I write with...

John Ashbery: I write with...

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

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Jenny Joseph: I shall sit...

Jenny Joseph: I shall sit...

I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my...

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Jenny Joseph: I shall go...

Jenny Joseph: I shall go...

I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to...

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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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Robert Burns: O, my luve's...

Robert Burns: O, my luve's...

O, my luve's like a red red rose
That's newly sprung in June:
O my luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly...

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Thomas Campbell: Triumphal arch, that...

Thomas Campbell: Triumphal arch, that...

Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky
When storms prepare to part,
I ask not proud Philosophy
To teach me what...

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Imamu Amiri Baraka: To name something...

Imamu Amiri Baraka: To name something...

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

Source: In...

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Robert Bolt: The nobility of...

Robert Bolt: The nobility of...

The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.

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John Keats: There is an...

John Keats: There is an...

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify -- so that among these human creatures there is...

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Jean de LaFontaine: Gentleness succeeds better...

Jean de LaFontaine: Gentleness succeeds better...

Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your...

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Thomas Moore: The world is...

Thomas Moore: The world is...

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams...

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Denise Levertov: Images <br>split the...

Denise Levertov: Images
split the...

Images
split the truth
in fractions.


Source: A Sequence, in The Jacob's...

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Edith Sitwell: Good taste is...

Edith Sitwell: Good taste is...

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Source: In Quote (Anderson), 24 Mar...

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