Dictionary Poems

A new machine invented in England deprives millions of Chinese workers of their livelihood within a year’s time. In this way, big industry has brought all the people of the earth into contact with each other, has merged all local markets into one world market, has spread civilization and progress everywhere. Discuss Karl Marx & … Continued

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. Discuss Victor Hugo

Tell all my mournersTo mourn in red —Cause there ain’t no senseIn my bein’ dead. – Wake by Langston Hughes

A light exists in spring Not present on the yearAt any other period. When March is scarcely here A color stands abroad On solitary hillsThat science cannot overtake, But human nature feels. It waits upon the lawn; It shows the furthest treeUpon the furthest slope we know; It almost speaks to me. Then, as horizons … Continued

It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the ‘race is for the strong’ and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science. Discuss Charles Darwin

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Discuss Jack London

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. Discuss Aristotle

Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wearToo calm and sad a face in front of thine;For we two look two ways, and cannot shineWith the same sunlight on our brow and hair.On me thou lookest with no doubting care,As on a bee shut in a crystalline;Since sorrow hath shut me safe in love’s divine,And … Continued

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Jane Austen

Live all you can – it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven’t had that, what have you had? Discuss Henry James