Dictionary Poems

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired. Discuss Homer

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. Discuss Virginia Woolf

Alliance, n.: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others’ pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. Discuss Ambrose Bierce

Give a girl an education, and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. Jane Austen

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. Francis Bacon

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis. Discuss Upton Sinclair

I am Envy…I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. Discuss Christopher Marlowe

The sky was clear—remarkably clear—and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. Discuss Thomas Hardy

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force. Discuss Gustave Flaubert

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. Discuss Alexandre Dumas