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When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
Lady Margaret Sackville
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Summary riposte
To the dreary wail
There's no knowing what
Love is all about.
Poets know a lot.
Robert Frost
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What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
Antonio Porchia
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She moves the way clocks move. And on her face, as on a clock dial which someone shines a light onto at night, a strange, briefly shown hour stands: a terrifying hour, in which someone dies.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I tasted - careless - then -
I did not know the Wine
Came once a World - Did you?
Oh, had you told me so -
This Thirst would blister - easier - now
Emily Dickinson
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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way
Isaac Rosenberg
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Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
Alexander Pushkin
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Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?
Kahlil Gibran
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Beautiful... as the fortuitous encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table.
Comte de Lautréamont
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War rages on the teeming earth;
The hot and sanguinary fight
Begins with each new creature's birth:
A dreadful war where might is right;
Where still the strongest slay and win,
Where weakness is the only sin.
Mathilde Blind
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The white man had come with the Bible in one hand, the bottle in the other.
E. Pauline Johnson
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Like to a stone
That rolls down a hill,
I have come to this day.
Takuboku Ishikawa
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Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.
Henry Timrod
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On the beryl-rimmed rebecs of Ruby
Brought fresh from the hyaline streams,
She played on the banks of the Yuba
Such songs as she heard in her dreams.
Thomas Holley Chivers
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We like to give in the sunlight, and to receive in the dark.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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Poetry is the vision in a man's soul which he translates as best he can with all the means at his disposal.
Paul Fort
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Your tiny hand is frozen, let me warm it in mine.
Giuseppe Giacosa
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It whispers; all is waiting here
Kept safe for thee, year after year,
Beautiful songs in thousands;
Where hast thou been, where, where?
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
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Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.
Velimir Khlebnikov
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As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd stay away.
Hughes Mearns
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It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.
Eliza Acton
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I send thee a shell from the ocean-beach; But listen thou well, for my shell hath speech. Hold to thine ear And plain thou'lt hear Tales of ships.
Charles Henry Webb
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O wild, dark flower of woman, Deep rose of my desire, An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire.
Charles G. D. Roberts
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Ah, the whites! Their malignity and their omniscience—that was what made them terrifying!
René Maran
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Ay, this is the famed rock, which Hercules
And Goth and Moor bequeathed us. At this door
England stands sentry.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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