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William Shakespeare: Devise, wit; write,...

William Shakespeare: Devise, wit; write,...

Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.

Source: Love's...

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William Shakespeare: And so, from...

William Shakespeare: And so, from...

And so, from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,
And then from hour to hour we rot and rot,
And thereby hangs a...

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Alexander Pope: Education forms the...

Alexander Pope: Education forms the...

Education forms the common mind.
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.


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Alexander Pope: If to her...

Alexander Pope: If to her...

If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.


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Alexander Pope: Die of a...

Alexander Pope: Die of a...

Die of a rose in aromatic pain?

Source: An Essay on Man, I. 200
-- Alexander...

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Alexander Pope: I am His...

Alexander Pope: I am His...

I am His Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me sir, whose dog are you?


Source: On...

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Alexander Pope: Peeled, patched, and...

Alexander Pope: Peeled, patched, and...

Peeled, patched, and piebald, linsey-wolsey brothers,
Grave mummers! sleeveless some, and shirtless...

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Alexander Pope: You beat your...

Alexander Pope: You beat your...

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come:
Knock as you please, there's no body at...

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William Wordsworth: A slumber did...

William Wordsworth: A slumber did...

A slumber did my spirit seal;
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of...

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William Wordsworth: For I have...

William Wordsworth: For I have...

For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes
The...

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William Wordsworth: The first cuckoo's...

William Wordsworth: The first cuckoo's...

The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.

Source: Miscellaneous Sonnets, I. 14, `To...

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William Wordsworth: We must be...

William Wordsworth: We must be...

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton...

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William Wordsworth: Me this unchartered...

William Wordsworth: Me this unchartered...

Me this unchartered freedom tires;
I feel the weight of chance-desires:
My hopes no more must change their...

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William Wordsworth: Huge and mighty...

William Wordsworth: Huge and mighty...

Huge and mighty forms, that do not live
Like living men, moved slowly through the mind
By day, and were a...

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Joseph Brodsky: Every writing career...

Joseph Brodsky: Every writing career...

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule...

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Joseph Brodsky: Life, the way...

Joseph Brodsky: Life, the way...

Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and...

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George Gordon Byron: What should I...

George Gordon Byron: What should I...

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel,...

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George Gordon Byron: Letter writing is...

George Gordon Byron: Letter writing is...

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

Source:...

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Emily Dickinson: Heaven is so...

Emily Dickinson: Heaven is so...

Heaven is so far of the Mind
That were the Mind dissolved --
The Site --of it --by Architect
Could not again...

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Emily Dickinson: Till it has...

Emily Dickinson: Till it has...

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

Source: Letter, 187?; in...

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