Quotes

New Adventures

Submitted by scotese on Thu, 2006-09-14 13:01

So forward on his way (with God to friend)

He passed forth, and new adventure sought;

Long way he traveld, before he heard of aught.

Edmund Spenser - The Faerie Queen
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Life

Submitted by scotese on Wed, 2006-09-13 12:26

What is our life? a play of passion;
Our mirth, the music of division;
Our mothers' wombs the tiring-houses be
Where we are dressed for this short comedy.
Heaven the judicious sharp spectator is,
That sits and marks still who doth act amiss;
Our graves that hide us from the searching sun
Are like drawn curtains when the play is done.
Thus march we playing to our latest rest;
Only we die in earnest--that's no jest.

Sir Walter Raleigh
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Silence

Submitted by scotese on Wed, 2006-09-13 12:23

Silence in love betrays more woe

  Than words, though ne'er so witty;

A beggar that is dumb, you know,

  Deserveth double pity.

Sir Walter Raleigh
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Regret

Submitted by scotese on Wed, 2006-09-13 12:21

Then lo! I did repent that I had said before,

  "Go, go, go, seek some otherwhere,

    Importune me no more!"

Queen Elizabeth I
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Possibilities

Submitted by scotese on Wed, 2006-09-13 12:17

Is it possible

  That any may find

  Within one heart so diverse mind,

  To change or turn as weather and wind?

Is it possible?

Sir Thomas Wyatt
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Language

Submitted by scotese on Wed, 2006-09-13 12:15

Shakespeare's language really is as special as people say it is.

Stephen Booth
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Credit

Submitted by scotese on Wed, 2006-09-13 12:12

[W]e have so long, so industriously ignored the qualities in literature that drew us to it in the first place.

Stephen Booth
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Perspective

Submitted by scotese on Wed, 2006-09-13 12:10

Shakespeare is our most underrated poet.

Stephen Booth
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Secret Places

Submitted by scotese on Wed, 2006-09-13 12:09

They live in secret places, windy

Cliffs, wolf-dens where water pours

From the rocks, then runs underground, where mist

Steams like black clouds...

Burton Raffel
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A Danish for mother

Submitted by scotese on Tue, 2006-09-12 12:44

How can you possibly not like Grendel; a boy who brings a Danish home for his mother...

Ron Fredrick
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