No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BC
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871Death renders all equal.
—Claudian, c. 395Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.
—Hans Christian Andersen, 1837No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917The belly is the teacher of the arts and bestower of invention.
—Persius, c. 55The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
—Ellsworth Huntington, 1919No man will take counsel, but every man will take money: therefore money is better than counsel.
—Jonathan Swift, 1702