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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

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
  • 2. Elizabeth Peyton the artist known for tiny dazzling portraits of radiant youth is now painting tiny dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.
  • 3. I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age it tends to get categorized and labeled and I think labels are for food. Canned food.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I cried when I found out I was a finalist I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body and I was just flesh – it was just amazing.
  • 2. It is pretty amazing. My parents who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. – who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.
  • 3. Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts just some doubling.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.
  • 2. Anger is a great force. If you control it it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
  • 3. The flame of anger bright and brief sharpens the barb of love.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. And currently there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics Australian Federation my 50th Birthday and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.
  • 2. I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there take your vows and be married to them for the rest of your life.
  • 3. Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Don't clap too hard – it's a very old building.
  • 2. I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
  • 3. Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
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