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Samuel Beckett: To find a...

Samuel Beckett: To find a...

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

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Oscar Wilde: If you don't...

Oscar Wilde: If you don't...

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't...

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Oscar Wilde: Morality is simply...

Oscar Wilde: Morality is simply...

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

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Philip James Bailey: Simplicity is natures...

Philip James Bailey: Simplicity is natures...

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Robert Bridges: When first we...

Robert Bridges: When first we...

When first we met we did not guess
That Love would prove so hard a master.


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Vachel Lindsay: This is the...

Vachel Lindsay: This is the...

This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: --
To speak of bloody power as right divine,
And call on God to guard...

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George Moses Horton: Oh! that my...

George Moses Horton: Oh! that my...

Oh! that my soul had winged its flight,
When first I saw the morning light,
To worlds of...

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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: No man is...

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: No man is...

No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.

Source: Pharsalia.
--...

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Geoffrey Chaucer: Men love ....

Geoffrey Chaucer: Men love ....

Men love . . . newfangledness.

Source: The Squire's Tale,'' in 'The Canterbury...

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Theodore Roethke: In a dark...

Theodore Roethke: In a dark...

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Source: In a Dark Time
-- Theodore...

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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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Thomas Campbell: But Hope, the...

Thomas Campbell: But Hope, the...

But Hope, the charmer, linger'd still behind.

Source: Pleasures of Hope, I. line...

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Rupert Brooke: For Cambridge people...

Rupert Brooke: For Cambridge people...

For Cambridge people rarely smile,
Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.


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Ethel Watts Mumford: A man of...

Ethel Watts Mumford: A man of...

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Source: In Oxford...

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Aphra Behn: One hour of...

Aphra Behn: One hour of...

One hour of right-down love
Is worth an age of dully living on.


Source: In An...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: God's gifts put...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: God's gifts put...

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

Source: Sonnets From the Portuguese,...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Measure not the...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Measure not the...

Measure not the work
Until the day's out and the labour done,
Then bring your...

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Alexander Pope: It is with...

Alexander Pope: It is with...

It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his...

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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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Robert Herrick: Who with a...

Robert Herrick: Who with a...

Who with a little cannot be content,
endures an everlasting punishment.


Source:...

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