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Lovers and madmen have such seething brains
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.


William Shakespeare

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(the kind my mother
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perhaps understand Shakespe...
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SMARTEST MOUTHS
HAVE THE
DUMBEST BRAINS

QWANA REYNOLDS-FRASIER Do you ever stop being so serious and dull?"
"Do you ever stop being such a prick?" I snapped b...
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With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
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SUN TZU Mark it, nuncle.
Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The land was ours before we were the lands.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Bef...
ROBERT FROST sweet spring is your
time is my time is our
time for springtime is lovetime
and viva ...
E.E. CUMMINGS Gentle whispers from above
Awakened me more
Than ever did
This loud world
HOLLY DUCARTE Since Cleopatra died,
I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods
Detest my baseness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond C...
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Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond...
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and, very confident,
proclaim that such magnificence
JOYCE RACHELLE To lovers there.

Most ladies the reason they are dumped and their relationship doesn't la...
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The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
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and lovers cannot see
the pretty follies
that themselves commit
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Those that much covet are with gain so fond,
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made with SNAP lie outside the tha...
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more than daffodils
and cried more than June.
SANOBER KHAN It has often been said
there’s so much to be read,
you never can cram
all those wor...
DR. SEUSS Why, what's the matter,
That you have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm and...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never such innocence,
Never before or since,
As changed itself to past
Without a word...
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It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may...
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and always will be

that first ever touch
to have fertilized
the g...
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And glow again.
Crazed by life,
More beautiful...
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in some bedroom
soon
my fingers will
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like a man loves a woman he never touches, only
writes to, keeps little photog...
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All in an access of crossing themselves,

Partic...
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A boy told me
if he roller-skated fast enough
his loneliness c...
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and battle warriors

both come
from the same place.

t...
SANOBER KHAN there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled

a space

and even ...
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Nor iron bars a cage;
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The stars shine through
The inky black
That is the cue
For pl...
VIRGINIA ALISON The enlightened worry less than others,
quarrel less than others,
fight less than others,<...
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I have been restless-
I have felt there is something
more wonderful than ...
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"Oh, no. Never."...
NENIA CAMPBELL Like delicate lace,
So the threads intertwine,
Oh, gossamer web
Of wond'rous design!<...
BILL WATTERSON over the decades
her books became
such a part
of her

that
the ink AMANDA LOVELACE More than being human, we need peace and love.

More than being strong and capable, we nee...
NURUDEEN USHAWU How many of us suffered to death?
How many of them gained more wealth?

How many of u...
RIXA WHITE I have many lovers.
Where ever I look, I find them.
There is no place devoid of them.
ANSUL NOOR I don’t think that I’ve been in love as such
Although I liked a few folk pretty well
L...
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JOSEPH BAYLY We have bigger houses but smaller families:
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The Bloody-Nine...
JOE ABERCROMBIE When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.'

Personally, I...
MARKUS ZUSAK Before I tell you, I have to know three things," I said.
"Okay."
"One, are you sitting dow...
DARYNDA JONES You're such a cynic," Molly said.

"I think cynics are playful and cute.
JIM BUTCHER This isn’t happily ever after.
It’s so much more than that.
KIERA CASS More than nakedness,
for there is no cover to take.
The fire in your eyes
is ringed w...
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Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of thi...
ROBERT FROST When you think things are bad,
when you feel sour and blue,
when you start to get mad... DR. SEUSS ...such are the dreams of youth, too gloriously stupid to realise what cannot be done.

An...
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of night's dark hitting
on the damp warm rain
misguiding owl'...
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It's Heaven when:
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The British a...
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You have feet in your shoes.
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DR. SEUSS (THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL) HERMIA
God speed fair Helena! whither away?

HELENA
Call you me fair? that fair ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call.
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Night lovers soared so high
Miles apart, across the ocea...
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that I can no longer
bear to say prayers,
for I am sick
of...
ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE, 612 BC Sonnet 130

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE my mind whispers
to itself
all those lovers
but none of them
loved you
R.H. SIN I was glad to be made aware
that “Veimke” (jeune fille au pair),
is subject to natural...
ROMAN PAYNE It happens all the time in heaven,
And some day

It will begin to happen
Again o...
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a. Finding ways to tell humans that they...
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This subtle second self
Sheaf of me
Can do more than you ever cou...
KELLY CREAGH Speak to me, fair maid!
Speak and do not go!
What sorrows have your eyes inlaid
With ...
ALISON CROGGON Trapped

don't undress my love
you might find a mannequin:
don't undress the man...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI When it comes
to love
do not ever
settle
for anything
less than magical.
SANOBER KHAN God, he’s such a cocky, arrogant bastard at times.
And I totally fancy him.
No I don�...
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Write.
Write more.
Write even more.
W...
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with no beginnings and no ends.
Such infinitesimal po...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES The Way It Is

There’s a thread you follow. It goes among
things that change. But i...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city."

"There are no limits in war,"...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there;
She gives the best light to his sphere;
Or each ...
JOHN DONNE In the cherry blossom's shade
there's no such thing
as a stranger.
KOBAYASHI ISSA Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY O, brave new world
that has such people in't!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A Very Short Poem for Poor Lovers

You’ve got nothing,
I’ve got nothing,
And...
ARZUM UZUN I have lost everything. Lost everything.
Everything. - William Herondale
CASSANDRA CLARE And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
JOHN MILTON Lovers dream of one more embrace.
One more kiss.
One act of love, no matter how small.
KAMAND KOJOURI Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN You would have made a fine warrior, you know that?"

I am one. Death is my enemy."
J.R. WARD

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To business...
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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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