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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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Anne Sexton: It doesn't matter...

Anne Sexton: It doesn't matter...

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Source: The...

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Vachel Lindsay: Authors and uncaptured...

Vachel Lindsay: Authors and uncaptured...

Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine.

Source: In...

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Emma Lazarus: Still on Israel's...

Emma Lazarus: Still on Israel's...

Still on Israel's head forlorn,
Every nation heaps its scorn.


Source: The...

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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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Edmund Waller: Poets that lasting...

Edmund Waller: Poets that lasting...

Poets that lasting marble seek
Must carve in Latin or in Greek.


Source: Of...

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Robert Burns: Dare to be...

Robert Burns: Dare to be...

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Thornton Wilder: And the sign...

Thornton Wilder: And the sign...

And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home And the sign that something's wrong with...

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Jean Anouilh: The only immorality....

Jean Anouilh: The only immorality....

The only immorality. . . is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

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Robert E Sherwood: It is disappointing...

Robert E Sherwood: It is disappointing...

It is disappointing to report that George Bernard Shaw appearing as George Bernard Shaw is sadly miscast in the part....

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Played percussively, the...

Played percussively, the...

Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home...

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Walter Bagehot: An inability to...

Walter Bagehot: An inability to...

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Source:...

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Exciting literature after...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Exciting literature after...

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

Source: The Living of...

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John Stuart Mill: The great creative...

John Stuart Mill: The great creative...

The great creative individual. . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can...

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James Goldsmith: If you pay...

James Goldsmith: If you pay...

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Source: Attributed.
-- James Goldsmith,...

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Susan RoAne: Respect for people...

Susan RoAne: Respect for people...

Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking in the nineties.

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Ted Turner: Every man sees...

Ted Turner: Every man sees...

Every man sees a little of himself in Rhett Butler.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Katharine Graham: A mistake is...

Katharine Graham: A mistake is...

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Source: In The Manager's Book of...

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Samuel Beckett: Nothing matters but...

Samuel Beckett: Nothing matters but...

Nothing matters but writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile. . . a stain upon the...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Like some small...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Like some small...

Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs
Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there
At this or that box,...

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