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When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences. The author may arrange the gems effectively but their shape and lustre have been given by the attrition of ages.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Tags: poets-and-poetry

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When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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When the style is fully formed, if it has a sweet undersong, we call it beautiful, and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Man has his will, - but woman has her way.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.
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