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Richard Armour: Beauty is only...

Richard Armour: Beauty is only...

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

Source:...

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Edith Sitwell: Good taste is...

Edith Sitwell: Good taste is...

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Source: In Quote (Anderson), 24 Mar...

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Samuel Beckett: I have my...

Samuel Beckett: I have my...

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

Source: The...

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Stephane Mallarme: You don't make...

Stephane Mallarme: You don't make...

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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May Swenson: I was the...

May Swenson: I was the...

I was the horse and the rider . . .

Source: The Centaur, Sts. I & 2, To Mix with...

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John Ashbery: I like poems...

John Ashbery: I like poems...

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

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Elizabeth Bishop: The art of...

Elizabeth Bishop: The art of...

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is...

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Robert Bridges: For beauty being...

Robert Bridges: For beauty being...

For beauty being the best of all we know
Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims
Of...

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Arthur Hugh Clough: If hopes were...

Arthur Hugh Clough: If hopes were...

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

Source: Say Not the Struggle Nought...

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Arthur Hugh Clough: Action will furnish...

Arthur Hugh Clough: Action will furnish...

Action will furnish belief, - but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you...

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Novalis: We are near...

Novalis: We are near...

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Wilfred Owen: The pallor of...

Wilfred Owen: The pallor of...

The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow...

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Wilfred Owen: Above all I...

Wilfred Owen: Above all I...

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the...

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William Watson: Pain with the...

William Watson: Pain with the...

Pain with the thousand teeth.

Source: The Dream of Man.
-- William Watson, (Aug...

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Diane Wakoski: Poems reveal secrets...

Diane Wakoski: Poems reveal secrets...

Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets...

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George Moses Horton: Alas! and am...

George Moses Horton: Alas! and am...

Alas! and am I born for this? To wear this slavish chain?

Source: On Liberty and...

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George Moses Horton: I leave my...

George Moses Horton: I leave my...

I leave my parents here behind
And all my friends to love resigned
'Tis grief to go, but death to...

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Geoffrey Chaucer: Time and tide...

Geoffrey Chaucer: Time and tide...

Time and tide wait for no man.

Source: In The American Library of Quotations,
--...

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Theodore Roethke: I wake to...

Theodore Roethke: I wake to...

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.


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Joseph Brodsky: Every individual ought...

Joseph Brodsky: Every individual ought...

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a...

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