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Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep and dark within myself.


Edward Hirsch

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EDWARD YOUNG At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
EDWARD YOUNG All men think all men mortal but themselves.
EDWARD YOUNG There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared! -
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EDWARD YOUNG Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
EDWARD YOUNG The man of wisdom is the man of years.
EDWARD YOUNG Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.
EDWARD YOUNG Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
EDWARD YOUNG One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousa...
EDWARD YOUNG Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, ...
EDWARD YOUNG To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ...
EDWARD WALKER As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str...
EDWARD WITTEN I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ...
JOHN EDWARD The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ...
EDWARD FITZGERALD Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called...
EDWARD KENNEDY It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori...
EDWARD KENNEDY The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and...
EDWARD BACH The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as...
EDWARD GIBBON The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass...
EDWARD ZWICK Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have...
EDWARD ZWICK It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
EDWARD LEAR What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
EDWARD LANGLEY We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick......
EDWARD HEATH I come like Water, and like Wind I go.
EDWARD FITZGERALD I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villa...
EDWARD ZWICK