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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

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Flinging himself from his horse, he made, in his rage, as if he would breast the flood. Standing knee-deep in water he hurled at the faithless woman a...more

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Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across count...more

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Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our ...more

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It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

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She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ...

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What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?

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Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each...more

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Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

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Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

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The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

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To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and destroy more surely ...more

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For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest expressions do, since no...more

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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means sig...more