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Henry John Newbolt: Drake he's in...

Henry John Newbolt: Drake he's in...

Drake he's in his hammock till the great Armadas come.
(Capten, art tha sleepin' there below?)
Slung atween the...

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Anne Bradstreet: Thou ill-form,d offspring...

Anne Bradstreet: Thou ill-form,d offspring...

Thou ill-form,d offspring of my feeble brain . . .

Source: From the Author to her...

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Andrew Marvell: The grave's a...

Andrew Marvell: The grave's a...

The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.


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Ogden Nash: Middle age is...

Ogden Nash: Middle age is...

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for...

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Stephane Mallarme: The poetic act...

Stephane Mallarme: The poetic act...

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them;...

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Basil Bunting: Sooner or later...

Basil Bunting: Sooner or later...

Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.

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John Ashbery: I write with...

John Ashbery: I write with...

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

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Francis Thompson: The innocent moon,...

Francis Thompson: The innocent moon,...

The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,
Moves all the labouring surges of the...

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Diane Wakoski: The best young...

Diane Wakoski: The best young...

The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first...

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: I battered the...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: I battered the...

I battered the cordons around me
And cradled my wings on the breeze,
Then soared to the uttermost...

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Hesiod: Potter is jealous...

Hesiod: Potter is jealous...

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet...

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Paul Verlaine: Music before all...

Paul Verlaine: Music before all...

Music before all else,
and for that choose the irregular,
which is vaguer and melts better into the...

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Theodore Roethke: The soul has...

Theodore Roethke: The soul has...

The soul has many motions, body one.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Henry John Newbolt: Drake he's in...

Henry John Newbolt: Drake he's in...

Drake he's in his hammock till the great Armadas come.
(Capten, art tha sleepin' there below?)
Slung atween the...

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Richard Lovelace: If I have...

Richard Lovelace: If I have...

If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free,
-- Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such...

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Jenny Joseph: But now we...

Jenny Joseph: But now we...

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good...

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William Cowper: Absence of occupation...

William Cowper: Absence of occupation...

Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.


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Moslih Eddin Saadi: A traveller without...

Moslih Eddin Saadi: A traveller without...

A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.

Source: In Wisdom of the...

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Moslih Eddin Saadi: I fear God,...

Moslih Eddin Saadi: I fear God,...

I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not.

Source: In...

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Edmund Spenser: Sweete Themmes! runne...

Edmund Spenser: Sweete Themmes! runne...

Sweete Themmes! runne softly, till I end my Song.

Source: Prothalamion.
--...

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