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/ page 378 of 1205 /That matches are made in heaven, may be, but my wife would have been just the wife for Peter the Great, or Peter Piper. How would she have set...
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Oh! mock not the poniarded heart. The stabbed man knows the steel; prate not to him that it is only a ticking feather.
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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
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The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future became one of red clay pine barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.
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One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it! The diverse things they see.
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Speech is the small change of silence.
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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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Who rises from a prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
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Kissing don't last: cookery do!
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I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
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The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
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Sunrays, leaning on our southern hills and lighting Wild cloud-mountains that drag the hills along, Oft ends the day of your shifting brilliant laughter Chill as a dull face frowning on a song. Ay, but shows the South-west a ripple-feathered bosom Blown to silver while the clouds are shaken and ascend Scaling the mid-heavens as they stream, there comes a sunset Rich, deep like love in beauty without end.
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There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
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Not a breath of wild air; Still as the mosses that glow On the flooring and over the lines
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For me, poetry is always a search for order.
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I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.
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Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?
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