The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Samuel Johnson

Arises Authors Chief Every

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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

Samuel Johnson

Almost Great Love Self

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

E. E. Cummings

Days Laughter Most Wasted

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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

E. E. Cummings

Become Courage Grow Grow Up

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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

E. E. Cummings

Any Believe Curiosity Delight

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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

E. E. Cummings

Imagine Living Living Thing Only

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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

E. E. Cummings

Wonderful World Is Mud

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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E. E. Cummings

Anything Careful Little Love

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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

E. E. Cummings

Began Had His Instant

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It takes three to make a child.

E. E. Cummings

Child Make Takes Three

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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

E. E. Cummings

Children Clocks Fathers Indians

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed

Samuel Johnson

Alone Born Complaining Crying

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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

E. E. Cummings

Because Buy Drink Hard

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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself

Samuel Johnson

Been Genius Has-Been Himself

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

E. E. Cummings

Buried Dead Imagination Knowledge

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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Samuel Johnson

Deliberation How Idle Life

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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

E. E. Cummings

Autumn Away Blown I Think

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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Samuel Johnson

Afford He Life London

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I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

E. E. Cummings

Better Body Like More

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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

E. E. Cummings

Any Battle Being Best

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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

E. E. Cummings

Alive Being Dead Isn't

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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

E. E. Cummings

Amazing Blue Day Dream

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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

E. E. Cummings

Bird Dance How Learn

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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

E. E. Cummings

Always Any Creation Destroy

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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

E. E. Cummings

Better Fate Kisses Than

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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

E. E. Cummings

Any Else Love Makes

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Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

E. E. Cummings

Door Go Good Hell

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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

E. E. Cummings

Always Answer Ask Beautiful

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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

E. E. Cummings

Arse Everyone Except Man

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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

E. E. Cummings

Because Black Dislike He

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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

E. E. Cummings

Anybody He Little Made

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Nothing recedes like progress.

E. E. Cummings

Like Nothing Progress Recedes

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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Edgar Allan Poe

Before Dared Darkness Deep

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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe

Became Horrible Insane Intervals

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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

Dream See Seem Within

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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

Cognizant Day Dream Escape

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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Edgar Allan Poe

Misconception A Stupidity Talent

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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

Edgar Allan Poe

Absolute Danger Effect Except

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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe

Evolved Fear Fraud Friend

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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

Edgar Allan Poe

Found May Possibly Verse

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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Edgar Allan Poe

Bent Come Content Dreams

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I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

Edgar Allan Poe

Deserves Excitement Excites Need

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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Samuel Johnson

Collection Distribution Memory Offices

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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

Edgar Allan Poe

Dreary Midnight Once Weak

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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Samuel Johnson

Any Been Calamity Escaped

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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Samuel Johnson

Apply Between Cannot Difference

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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Samuel Johnson

Design Difficult Easy Many

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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Edgar Allan Poe

Beauty Brief Creation Define

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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Edgar Allan Poe

Everything Genius Saying Should

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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

Call Faith Fools Friends

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5714 Poet Quotes

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Samuel Johnson

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

Samuel Johnson

E. E. Cummings

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

E. E. Cummings

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

E. E. Cummings

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

E. E. Cummings

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

E. E. Cummings

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E. E. Cummings

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

E. E. Cummings

It takes three to make a child.

E. E. Cummings

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

E. E. Cummings

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed

Samuel Johnson

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

E. E. Cummings

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

E. E. Cummings

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Samuel Johnson

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

E. E. Cummings

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Samuel Johnson

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

E. E. Cummings

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

E. E. Cummings

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

E. E. Cummings

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

E. E. Cummings

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

E. E. Cummings

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

E. E. Cummings

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

E. E. Cummings

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

E. E. Cummings

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

E. E. Cummings

Nothing recedes like progress.

E. E. Cummings

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

Edgar Allan Poe

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

Edgar Allan Poe