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[T]hroÂ’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide?… — Alexander Pope
There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air.... The final rocket went up,… — Jan Struther
By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea,… — Booker T. Washington
The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for… — William McFee
Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically.… — Elizabeth Hardwick
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines.… — N. T. Wright
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them. — Clement Attlee
Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited… — Robert Burns
Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern… — Barry Goldwater
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have… — Michel Foucault
We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world… — Evan Davis
But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes. — Polly Toynbee
[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I used to have the most visceral response to having my photo taken. I felt like instantly bursting into tears and running out of the… — Rebecca Hall
If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. — Charles Bukowski
By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time… — Lynda Barry
Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and The Cosby show.… — Tayari Jones
When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds. — Jonathan Swift
REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed. — Ambrose Bierce
Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of… — Robert Burns
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright… — Francis Scott Key
Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an… — Adrienne Rich
I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant,… — Nora Ephron
O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower… — John Masefield

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