January 2012
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it...
– Henry David Thoreau
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Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
– John F. Kennedy talking about my city.
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Pity the planet, all joy gone
from this sweet volcanic cone;
peace to our...
– Waking Early Sunday Morning by Robert Lowell
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
– Edmund Spenser
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Yet
I trust the sanity of my vessel; and
if it sinks, it may well be in answer...
– To The Harbormaster by Frank O’Hara
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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I can’t think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn’t...
– Susan Glaspell
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Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
– James Bryant Conant
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What he has now to say is a long
wonder the world can bear & be.
Once in a...
– 1 (From Dream Songs) by John Berryman
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