Dictionary Poems

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation. Mary Shelley

Just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible. Discuss Lucy Maud Montgomery

It is true we love life; not because we are wont to live, but because we are wont to love. Friedrich Nietzsche

I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. Discuss W. Somerset Maugham

There are talkers enough among us; I’ll be one of the doers. Discuss Charles Dickens

The skeleton of the whale furnishes but little clue to the shape of his fully invested body. Discuss Herman Melville

While I make rhymes my brother JohnMakes shiny shoes which dames try on,And finding to their fit and stanceThey buy and wear with elegance;But mine is quite another tale,– For song there is no sale. My brother Tom a tailor shopIs owner of, and ladies stopTo try the models he has planned,And richly pay, I … Continued

I have heard men talk of the blessings of freedom, … but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it. Discuss Sir Walter Scott

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs. Discuss Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. Discuss Gilbert Chesterton