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Robert Burns: O wad some...

Robert Burns: O wad some...

O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as others see us.


Source: In...

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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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William Wordsworth: The mightiest lever...

William Wordsworth: The mightiest lever...

The mightiest lever known to the moral world, imagination.

Source: In Pearls of...

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Nathalie Sarraute: Suspicion. . ....

Nathalie Sarraute: Suspicion. . ....

Suspicion. . . is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another...

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Elizabeth Bishop: It is like...

Elizabeth Bishop: It is like...

It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of...

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Elizabeth Bishop: Icebergs behoove the...

Elizabeth Bishop: Icebergs behoove the...

Icebergs behoove the soul (Both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair,...

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Diane Wakoski: Learning to live...

Diane Wakoski: Learning to live...

Learning to live with what you're born with
is the process,
the involvement,
the making of a...

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Diane Wakoski: I write in...

Diane Wakoski: I write in...

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it...

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Theodore Roethke: A lively understandable...

Theodore Roethke: A lively understandable...

A lively understandable spirit
Once entertained you.
It will come again.
Be...

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Robert Burns: Critics! Those cut-throat...

Robert Burns: Critics! Those cut-throat...

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Robert Browning: And gain is...

Robert Browning: And gain is...

And gain is gain, however small.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar...

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Pindar: Every gift, though...

Pindar: Every gift, though...

Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.

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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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Fulke Greville: I hardly know...

Fulke Greville: I hardly know...

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.

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Francis Quarles: Read not books...

Francis Quarles: Read not books...

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

Source: In Poor...

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Edwin A Robinson: Black and unblossomed...

Edwin A Robinson: Black and unblossomed...

Black and unblossomed were the ways he knew,
Dark was the glass through which his fire eye...

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Anne Sexton: The beautiful feeling...

Anne Sexton: The beautiful feeling...

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a...

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Wilfred Owen: And in the...

Wilfred Owen: And in the...

And in the happy no-time of his sleeping
Death took him by the heart.


Source:...

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Emma Lazarus: His cup is...

Emma Lazarus: His cup is...

His cup is gall, his meat is tears,
His passion lasts a thousand years.


Source:...

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Edmund Waller: The fear of...

Edmund Waller: The fear of...

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest,
Savours too much of private interest.


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