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Joyce Kilmer: It is stern...

Joyce Kilmer: It is stern...

It is stern work, it is perilous work to thrust your hand in the sun
And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm...

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Stevie Smith: I'm sorry to...

Stevie Smith: I'm sorry to...

I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer,
And as she dreams she gets paler and leaner.
Then be off to your...

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Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr: The flowers take...

Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr: The flowers take...

The flowers take the tears
of the weeping night
And give them to the sun
for the day's...

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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: The bravest man...

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: The bravest man...

The bravest man is he who is prepared to cope with present dangers and to wait for a better...

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Delmore Schwartz: Major writing is...

Delmore Schwartz: Major writing is...

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

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Anne Bradstreet: And he...

Anne Bradstreet: And he...

And he that knowes the most, cloth still bemoan
He knows not all that here is to be...

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Novalis: Where children are,...

Novalis: Where children are,...

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Novalis: Only an artist...

Novalis: Only an artist...

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Novalis: Only as far...

Novalis: Only as far...

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in...

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Wilson Mizner: Some of the...

Wilson Mizner: Some of the...

Some of the greatest love affairs I've known involved one actor, unassisted.

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Emily Dickinson: A Wounded deer...

Emily Dickinson: A Wounded deer...

A Wounded deer - leaps highest.

Source: 1860; Poems, First Series, 1890.
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Maurice Maeterlinck: Our reason may...

Maurice Maeterlinck: Our reason may...

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from...

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Maurice Maeterlinck: How strangely do...

Maurice Maeterlinck: How strangely do...

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

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William Wycherley: I have been...

William Wycherley: I have been...

I have been toiling and moiling for the prettiest piece of china, my dear.

Source:...

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Edna St Vincent Millay: My candle burns...

Edna St Vincent Millay: My candle burns...

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-
It gives a...

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Sara Teasdale: I have no...

Sara Teasdale: I have no...

I have no riches but my thoughts,
Yet these are wealth enough for me.


Source:...

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George Herbert: Follow not truth...

George Herbert: Follow not truth...

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

Source: Jacula...

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Nikki Giovanni: It's not a...

Nikki Giovanni: It's not a...

It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a...

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Louise Erdrich: You know, some...

Louise Erdrich: You know, some...

You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time,...

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Dodie Smith: For though he...

Dodie Smith: For though he...

For though he had very little Latin beyond Cave canem, he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty...

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