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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose = words in their best order – poetry = the best words in the best order.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Category: Poetry

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

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1 Age

  • 1. I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.
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  • 3. A woman has the age she deserves.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.
  • 2. I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director the creative process is really amazing.
  • 3. It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

3 Anger

  • 1. Speak when you are angry – and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
  • 2. Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him.
  • 3. I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
  • 2. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
  • 3. Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.
  • 2. Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
  • 3. But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
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