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Man disavows, and Deity disowns me;Hell might afford my miseries a shelter;Therefore Hell keeps her ...

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William CowperThe Poetical Works Of William Cowper

Versifying left her cold. Poems were too close to prayer, rousing regrettable passions. Waiting for ...

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All that can best be expressed in words should be expressed in verse, but verse is a slow thing to c...

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Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.

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John DonneAlchimie der Liebe. Gedichte

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

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Lewis CarrollThe Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition

To share is precious, pure and fair.Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you...

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These (Shakespeare, Milton, and Victor Hugo) not only knit and knot the logical texture of the style...

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One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the i...

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T. S. EliotThe Family Reunion

When the world uncovers some dark disguise,Embrace the darkness with averted eyes.

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Thomas LigottiSongs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

I was born to travel and write verse.

I am looking at him, I am witnessing a unique physiological phenomenon: John Shade perceiving and tr...

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Cannot it actually be that in a wildly literal sense, unacceptable to one's reason, he meant disappe...

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Vladimir NabokovThe Stories of Vladimir Nabokov