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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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. What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page And be alone on earth as I am now.
  • 2. Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
  • 3. I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65 you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise you are just existing.

2 Amazing

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. The thing is I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.
  • 3. I feel fortunate. I've really gotten to work with amazing talented people and to learn from them which is why I'm doing this. If I can work with the best director I'm going to do it.

3 Anger

  • 1. I'm an angry person angrier than most people would imagine I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.
  • 2. The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart the less capable you are of loving in the present.
  • 3. The preparation commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.
  • 3. Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was you could have asked the local florist – because every day Dad gave Mom a rose which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died – she went looking for him because that morning there was no rose.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I am but an architectural composer.
  • 2. The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad and by laughing at the architecture.
  • 3. The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
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