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The picture, placed the busts between,
Adds to the thought much strength:
Wisdom and Wit are little seen,
But Folly's at full length.
Jane Brereton
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Far as distress the soul can wound
'Tis pain in each degree;
Bliss goes but to a certain bound,
Beyond is agony.
Frances Greville
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See the wasp. He has pretty yellow stripes around his body, and a darning needle in his tail. If you will pat the wasp upon the tail we will give you a nice picture book.
Eugene Field
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At a department store in Kyoto One of my friends bought a beetle For his son, seven years old. A few hours later The boy brought his dead bug To a hardware store, asking "Change battery please."
Nanao Sakaki
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I had a perfect confidence, still unshaken, in books. If you read enough you would reach the point of no return. You would cross over and arrive on the safe side. There you would drink the strong waters and become addicted, perhaps demented - but a Reader.
Helen Bevington
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It is only the happy who are hard, Gilles. I think perhaps it is better for the world if - if one has a broken heart. One is quick to recognise it, elsewhere. And one has time to think about other people, if there is nothing left to hope for any more.
Helen Waddell
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Maybe we all want to burn off across the horizon, into space, perhaps, to take off into some unknown territory and meet ourselves out there.
Berlie Doherty
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The last cobwebs
of fog in the
black firtrees are flakes
of white ash in the world's hearth.
Denise Levertov
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Before you go further,
let me tell you what a poem brings,
first, you must know the secret, there is no poem
to speak of, it is a way to attain a life without boundaries...
Juan Felipe Herrera
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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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I used to solve equations easily. If train A left Sioux Falls at nine o'clock, traveling at a fixed rate, I knew when it would meet train B. Now I wonder if the trains will crash; or else I picture naked limbs through Pullman windows, each a small vignette of longing.
Linda Pastan
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When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate.
Marguerite de Navarre
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The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.
Paul Monette
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And bold and hard adventures t' undertake,
Leaving his country for his country's sake.
Charles Fitzgeffrey
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I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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War is only glorious when you buy it in the Daily Mail and enjoy it at the breakfast table. It goes splendidly with bacon and eggs. Real war is the final limit of damnable brutality, and that's all there is in it.
G. A. Studdert Kennedy
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How many have died without having given even one kiss to their chimera!
Théophile Gautier
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This is the black, shot with blue, of my dark
daddy's knuckles, that do not change, ever. Which is to say they are no more pale
in anger than at rest, or when, as
I imagine them now, they follow
the same two fingers he has always used
to make the rim of every empty blue
glass in the house sing. Always, the same blue-to-black sorrow no black surface can entirely hide.
Carl Phillips
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Far from Italy, far from my native Tarentum I lie; and this is the worst of it—worse than death. An exile's life is no life. But the Muses loved me. For my suffering they gave me a honeyed gift: My name survives me. Thanks to the sweet Muses Leonidas will echo throughout all time.
Leonidas of Tarentum
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The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)
Muriel Spark
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'Qui procul hinc', the legend's writ,—
The frontier-grave is far away—
'Qui ante diem periit:
Sed miles, sed pro patria.'
Henry Newbolt
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None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and though it may be broken, and we turned loose, some remnant of it, some intangible evil or lovely thing or both, will remain with us, like the odor to a flower, or the smoothness to a piece of ivory. It is part of the immortality of youth.
Lizette Woodworth Reese
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Clear and simple in white and gold, Meadows blossom, of sunlit spaces, - The field is full as it well can hold And white with the drift of the ox-eye daisies!
Dora Read Goodale
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People be droppin' revolution like it was a pick-up line. You wouldn't use that word if you knew what it meant. It ain't pretty It's bloody It overturns things.
Sekou Sundiata
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The flow of the river is ceaseless and its water is never the same. The bubbles that float in the pools, now vanishing, now forming, are not of long duration: so in the world are man and his dwellings.... [People] die in the morning, they are born in the evening, like foam on the water.
Kamo no Chomei
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