"Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause."
-Phyllis McGinley
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"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"
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"Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure."
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"Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone."
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"Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful."
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"Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man."
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"I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry."
-John Donne
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"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
-Leonard Cohen
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"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."
-Robert Frost
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"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
-John Keats
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"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."
-Emily Dickinson
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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
-Emily Dickinson
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