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Pindar: Seek not, my...

Pindar: Seek not, my...

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy...

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Robert Bly: I know a...

Robert Bly: I know a...

I know a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty than they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is...

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Robert Herrick: Tears are the...

Robert Herrick: Tears are the...

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Reading is important -- read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Source:...

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Allen Ginsberg: Nobody saves America...

Allen Ginsberg: Nobody saves America...

Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine, Jiggling yr knees blankeyed in the rain, When it snows in yr nose you catch...

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Allen Ginsberg: I have a...

Allen Ginsberg: I have a...

I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks. . . and think of anything that comes...

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Anne Bradstreet: I am obnoxious...

Anne Bradstreet: I am obnoxious...

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue
Who says my hand a needle better fits,
A poet's pen all scorn I should...

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Louise Erdrich: His thoughts swam...

Louise Erdrich: His thoughts swam...

His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own...

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Euripides: Slight not what...

Euripides: Slight not what...

Slight not what is near, while aiming at what is far.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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William Congreve: Defer not till...

William Congreve: Defer not till...

Defer not till tomorrow to be wise,
Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.


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Maxwell Anderson: From the point...

Maxwell Anderson: From the point...

From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual...

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Marsha Norman: There are things...

Marsha Norman: There are things...

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is...

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Marsha Norman: Success is always...

Marsha Norman: Success is always...

Success is always something that you have to recover from.

Source: Interviews with...

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Friedrich von Schiller: Keep true to...

Friedrich von Schiller: Keep true to...

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Source: In Instant Quotation Dictionary, by...

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Paul Eldridge: Praises for our...

Paul Eldridge: Praises for our...

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

Source: In The...

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Martial: Fortune gives too...

Martial: Fortune gives too...

Fortune gives too much to many, but enough to none.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Nicolas Chamfort: The most thoroughly...

Nicolas Chamfort: The most thoroughly...

The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

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Miguel de Cervantes: Tell me what...

Miguel de Cervantes: Tell me what...

Tell me what company thou keepest, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Source: Don...

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Miguel de Cervantes: Good painters imitate...

Miguel de Cervantes: Good painters imitate...

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

Source: El Licenciado...

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Terry McMillan: Too many of...

Terry McMillan: Too many of...

Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down,...

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