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«I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.»
Author: John Ashbery
| Keywords:
closed, closing time, head off, In My Head, length, look on, occasionally, snip, snipping, snip off, work off
«I have no history but the length of my bones»
«Shorth is better than length.»
«It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
depths, fathom, fathomed, fathoms, length, ocean, sailor
«Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters»
Author: Seneca
| About:
Actors and acting,
Excellence,
Life,
Play
| Keywords:
acting, excellence, length, lengths, matters
«Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come»
«I hope... that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
at length, cutting, cuttings, differences, difference of opinion, length, reasonable, settle, throats
«The bourgeois produces the bolshevist, inevitably as every half-truth at length produces the contradiction of itself in the opposite half-truth.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
at length, Bolshevist, bourgeois, contradiction, half-truth, inevitably, length, produces
«It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.»
«There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| Keywords:
absolute, at length, cessation, endure, length, pause, paused, pausing, prostration, the point
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