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- Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon…
- When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest…
- Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward…
- Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.
- I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill,…
- You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young;…
- Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered…
- Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?
- We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We…
- Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
- What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?
- Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall…
- Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a…
- Everything we look upon is blest.
- Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever…
- Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence.
- A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught...…
- Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a…
- Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
- Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss…
- An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for…
- Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon…
- Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most violent…
- When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly…
- A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until…
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- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to… — Norman Ralph Augustine
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no… — Marcus Aurelius
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius