565 Quotations with Poet.
- 61. Ambrose Bierce: LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word ...
- 62. Ambrose Bierce: LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, ...
- 63. Ambrose Bierce: LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative ...
- 64. Ambrose Bierce: MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color le ...
- 65. Ambrose Bierce: OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has bee ...
- 66. Ambrose Bierce: POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.
- 67. Ambrose Bierce: PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that --
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- 68. Ambrose Bierce: REQUIEM, n. A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o ...
- 69. Ambrose Bierce: RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and ...
- 70. Ambrose Bierce: RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and ...
- 71. Ambrose Bierce: RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.
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- 72. Ambrose Bierce: SUCCESS, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows. In literature, and p ...
- 73. Ambrose Bierce: TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irr ...
- 74. Ambrose Bierce: WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition ...
- 75. Ambrose Bierce: YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age ...
- 76. H. L. Mencken: A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- 77. G.K. Chesterton: The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
- 78. George Eliot: Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even Science, the st ...
- 79. Fran Lebowitz: If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient eviden ...
- 80. Oscar Wilde: The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and h ...
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