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Joseph Brodsky: If a poet...

Joseph Brodsky: If a poet...

If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice....

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Delmore Schwartz: I should like...

Delmore Schwartz: I should like...

I should like you to consider this letter as a resignation; I want to resign as one of your most studious and faithful...

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Andrew Marvell: Self-preservation, nature's first...

Andrew Marvell: Self-preservation, nature's first...

Self-preservation, nature's first great law,
All the creatures, except man, doth awe.


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Andrew Marvell: Let us roll...

Andrew Marvell: Let us roll...

Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Whatever crazy sorrow...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Whatever crazy sorrow...

Whatever crazy sorrow saith,
No life that breathes with human breath
Has ever truly longed for...

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Alexander Pope: All are but...

Alexander Pope: All are but...

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

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Antonin Artaud: When we speak...

Antonin Artaud: When we speak...

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of...

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Antonin Artaud: Tragedy on the...

Antonin Artaud: Tragedy on the...

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

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Antonin Artaud: The race of...

Antonin Artaud: The race of...

The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of...

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Antonin Artaud: No one has...

Antonin Artaud: No one has...

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of...

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Friedrich von Schiller: It hinders the...

Friedrich von Schiller: It hinders the...

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour...

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Friedrich von Schiller: What reason, like...

Friedrich von Schiller: What reason, like...

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a...

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Paul Eldridge: Man is ready...

Paul Eldridge: Man is ready...

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that the idea is not quite clear to him.

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Thomas Tusser: Seek home for...

Thomas Tusser: Seek home for...

Seek home for rest,
For home is best.


Source: Five Hundred Points of Good...

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Louise A Bogan: [Your work] is...

Louise A Bogan: [Your work] is...

[Your work] is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

Source: In...

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Aeschylus: It is not...

Aeschylus: It is not...

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Source:...

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Sean O'Casey: Laughter is wine...

Sean O'Casey: Laughter is wine...

Laughter is wine for the soul -- laugh soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. Comedy and tragedy...

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Sean O'Casey: [W]ith whitened hair,...

Sean O'Casey: [W]ith whitened hair,...

[W]ith whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity...

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Wendy Wasserstein: You're the unfortunate...

Wendy Wasserstein: You're the unfortunate...

You're the unfortunate contradiction in terms -- a serious good person.

Source: The...

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Marcel Pagnol: Whenever I go...

Marcel Pagnol: Whenever I go...

Whenever I go to the dock and look at the horizon, I am on the other side. If I see a boat on the ocean, it pulls me...

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