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Christina Rossetti: I might show...

Christina Rossetti: I might show...

I might show facts as plain as day:
But since your eyes are blind, you'd say,
Where? What? and turn...

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Stevie Smith: Nobody heard him,...

Stevie Smith: Nobody heard him,...

Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not...

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Eliza Cook: Though language forms...

Eliza Cook: Though language forms...

Though language forms the preacher,
'Tis good works make the man.


Source: Good...

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: The heart of...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: The heart of...

The heart of a woman falls back with the night,
And enters some alien cage in its plight,
And tries to forget it...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: I had to...

Georgia O'Keeffe: I had to...

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

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Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Teenagers travel in...

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Teenagers travel in...

Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. . . .To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: I am a...

Gwendolyn Brooks: I am a...

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Source: In My Soul Looks Back,...

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Amy Lowell: Moon!<br>Moon!<br>I am prone...

Amy Lowell: Moon!
Moon!
I am prone...

Moon!
Moon!
I am prone before you.
Pity me,
And drench me in loneliness.


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Eleanor Robson Belmont: An actor rides...

Eleanor Robson Belmont: An actor rides...

An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which...

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Greta Garbo: I'm afraid of...

Greta Garbo: I'm afraid of...

I'm afraid of nothing except being bored.

Source: Garbo to Robert Taylor in...

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Lynn Fontanne: One reason we...

Lynn Fontanne: One reason we...

One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic...

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Edith Clara Summerskill: [G]overnments still pin...

Edith Clara Summerskill: [G]overnments still pin...

[G]overnments still pin their faith to some new economic nostrum which is produced periodically by some bright young...

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Anne Wilson Schaef: It is not...

Anne Wilson Schaef: It is not...

It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end.

Source:...

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Nadine Gordimer: The creative act...

Nadine Gordimer: The creative act...

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read...

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Kathleen Norris: Over and over...

Kathleen Norris: Over and over...

Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.

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Florence Scovel Shinn: If one is...

Florence Scovel Shinn: If one is...

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to . . . face a situation fearlessly, and [if]...

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Margot Asquith: The capacity to...

Margot Asquith: The capacity to...

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

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Mary Wortley Montagu: It was formerly...

Mary Wortley Montagu: It was formerly...

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided...

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Dorothy Gilman: The best things...

Dorothy Gilman: The best things...

The best things arrive on time.

Source: A New Kind of Country, 1978.
-- Dorothy...

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Paule Marshall: Sometimes a person...

Paule Marshall: Sometimes a person...

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back -- to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them --...

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