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How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!


William Shakespeare

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How many ages henceShall this our lofty scene be acted overIn states unborn and accents yet unknown!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a woo...
ROBERT FROST Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one travele...
ROBERT FROST Now may every living thing, young or old,
weak or strong, living near or far, known or
unk...
ANONYMOUS William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS Heavy is the head that wears the crown
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CHARMAINE J. FORDE Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
An...
WALLACE STEVENS Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel...
ROBERT FROST I shall be telling this with a sigh - Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, a...
ROBERT FROST How many of us suffered to death?
How many of them gained more wealth?

How many of u...
RIXA WHITE I cannot be grasped in the here and now,
For my dwelling place is much among the dead,
As the ...
PAUL KLEE William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN How clear, how lovely bright,
How beautiful to sight
Those beams of morning play;
Ho...
A.E. HOUSMAN So shall I fight, so shall I tread,
In this long war beneath the stars;
So shall a glory wreat...
JOHN EDWARD MASEFIELD Fare well we call to hearth and hall
Though wind may blow and rain may fall
We must away e...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Ye cannae leave.”
“Why?” she yelled, glancing over her shoulder at Cormac. “Tell me wh...
MARY MORGAN A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken to my joyful...
GEORGE ORWELL Friar Laurence:

O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here at last
We shall be free;
the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not driv...
JOHN MILTON To-day I shall be strong,
No more shall yield to wrong,
Shall squander life no more;
...
A.E. HOUSMAN The King beneath the mountains,
The King of carven stone,
The lord of silver fountains
J.R.R. TOLKIEN We shall be notes in that great Symphony
Whose cadence circles through the rhythmic spheres, OSCAR WILDE If today is not your day,
then be happy
for this day shall never return.
And if to...
KAMAND KOJOURI What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgi...
OUIDA No more can this Angel teach her,
Yet, this guiding wing shall not forsake ...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI I WANT her though, to take the same from me.
She touches me as if I were herself, her own.
D.H. LAWRENCE And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.

King Henry VII...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That the blackb...
WALLACE STEVENS Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see,
Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me;...
THOMAS MOORE Sharks are declining
globally, yet the movements and habitats of most species are unknown,
BARBARA BLOCK But first whom shall we send
In search of this new world, whom shall we find
Sufficient? W...
JOHN MILTON Maturity

A stationary sense . . . as, I suppose,
I shall have, till my single body g...
PHILIP LARKIN And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this ga...
SAMUEL DANIEL The shades of night were falling fast,
As though an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, '...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we hap...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am the Unknown Soldier
And maybe I died in vain,
But if I were alive and my country called...
BILLY ROSE Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day;
Let other hours be set apart for business.
To-day it is...
HENRY FIELDING The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman?

"Everyone misses it, o...
DAN BROWN Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so ...
T.S. ELIOT Truth

And if sun comes
How shall we greet him?
Shall we not dread him,...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Are we like two stars in a constellation
Seeming so close
And making so much sense
Ye...
JUSTIN WETCH I’ve reached the vanishing point
without you.
Here my heartache begins with your pain MUNIA KHAN Not marble nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme,
But you...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And who in time knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores ...
SAMUEL DANIEL And now the measure of my song is done:
The work has reached its end; the book is mine,
...
OVID Each day, each moment
is a step into the unknown.
How can we feel anything
but amazem...
IVAN M. GRANGER When I am dead, and over me bright April
Shakes out her rain drenched hair,
Tho you should...
SARA TEASDALE How blest am I in this discovering thee!
To enter in these bonds is to be free;
Then where...
JOHN DONNE Many Castles

On
My
Travels
i have been
A guest in
Many cast...
SILENT LOTUS I shall now call myself;
I shall now call.
In the forest of my heart, seeing myself,
...
SRI CHINMOY Steadfast Seas and Mountains

The lofty mountains and the seas,
Being mountains, bei...
REIKO CHIBA The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Look at
how deeply flawed
we are

and yet
capable of loving
so perfec...
SANOBER KHAN Amor"

So many days, oh so many days
seeing you so tangible and so close,
how do...
PABLO NERUDA In that last dance of chances

I shall partner you no more.

I shall watch anoth...
ROBIN HOBB All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment;
JOSEPH SMITH JR. Fish are
an excellent source of omega-3 fatty acids, which may protect against
coronary ...
JOSHUA COHEN Don’t let yourself forget how many doctors have died, furrowing their brows over how many deathbed...
MARCUS AURELIUS When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,
and when we escape like squirrels turning in t...
D.H. LAWRENCE I will do such things,--
What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be
The terrors of t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Everywhere, Everywhere"

amazing, how grimly we hold onto our
misery,
ever defen...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI In heaven after ''ages of ages'' of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the sho...
ALEXANDER MACLAREN In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shorele...
ALEXANDER MACLAREN How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me,
my savage, solitary soul, my name that sen...
PABLO NERUDA And do I ask, wherefore my heart
Falters, oppressed with unknown needs?
Why some inexpli...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE This town must learn,
even against its will, how much it costs
to scorn a God's mysteries ...
EURIPIDES And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart:

Your seeds shall li...
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JAMES SHAPIRO Is there a panic button I can hit? Or better yet, a button that will pause this whole scene while I ...
CATHERINE MCKENZIE This cruel age has deflected me,
like a river from this course.
Strayed from its familiar ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I am a creature of the Fey
Prepare to give your soul away
My spell is passion and it is ...
HEATHER ALEXANDER Some day we will try
To do as many things as are possible
And perhaps we shall succeed at ...
JOHN ASHBERY Our society has come to adopt many of the draconian measures Orwell
tried to warn us about. Cam...
DONALD JEFFRIES Hard Wind
Sister with iron hooves
Together we shall travel steppes
that no man nor mo...
GREG KEYES what a shame we all became such fragile, broken things.
A memory remains just a tiny spark.
HAYLEY WILLIAMS So your flesh shall be part of mine
And part of mine be yours.
Brother and sister we shall b...
WILLIAM EMPSON In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough f...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love for the beauty of the soul.
I shall love you always.
When the flower of life has go...
LAUREL A. ROCKEFELLER Someday you shall meet someone
Who's gonna look at you in awe-
Flying high, wings all spre...
SANHITA BARUAH We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive whe...
T.S. ELIOT This could call into question every study ever done with sturgeon ages. I may be able to go back and...
RON BRUCH Or might the soul clone itself,
create a perfect imitation
of something yet to be
def...
ELLEN HOPKINS There is this quote that I read a long time ago. A quote that I loved and made me feel strong. It ha...
CAMBRIA HEBERT From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN My featherbed is deep and soft,
and there I’ll lay you down,
I’ll dress you all in yel...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods ma...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever go...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY The real flight of this hawk is impending.

Still,this bird is yet to be tested for real.<...
ARUNIMA SINHA I reached out my hand, England's rivers turned and flowed the other way...
I reached out my han...
SUSANNA CLARKE I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live...
ANONYMOUS I said to my soul
Be still
And wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:
This wide and universal theatre
Presents more woe...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As for life,
I'm humbled,
I'm without words
sufficient to say

how it has b...
MARY OLIVER The season was waning fast
Our nights were growing cold at last
I took her to bed with sil...
ROMAN PAYNE

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To business...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest wa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows-- The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
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