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All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses. Through the open doors The harmless phantoms on their errands glide, With...

Love is not all: It is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain, Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink and rise and...

SHADOW.--A PARABLE. Yea! though I walk through the valley of the _Shadow_. 'Psalm of David'. Ye who read are still among the ...

This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eter...

Your world is as big as you make it I know, for I used to abide In the narrowest nest in a corner My wings pressing close to my side Bu...

IN DEATH, CANNOT REACH WHAT IS MOST NEAR We know all about death that we will ever know because we have all experienced the state bef...

Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams in Columbus, Mississippi (1914). He's the author of the plays The Glass Menagerie...

*A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. *A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books...

"This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the ...

Whether the rain comes down or there be sunny days the sleets of January or the haze of autumn afternoons, when we dream of our youth o...

The man who wrote under the name Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri (1835). He's best known to us toda...

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up ...

Trust Yourself Trust yourself, Trust yourself to do the things that only you know best. Trust yourself, Trust yourself to do w...

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota (1896). In April of 1920, at the age of 23, he published his first novel, This Side ...

For You Democracy Come, I will make the continent indissolub le, I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon, I will make ...

bandersnatch \ BAN-der-snach \ , noun; 1. An imaginary wild animal of fierce disposition. 2. A person of uncouth or unconventional habits, ...

Before he died Archduke Franz Ferdinand, gunned down in Sarajevo to jump-start World War I, bragged he had shot three thousand stags and a m...

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the author of On the Road (1957), a book that brought him instant fame and la...

Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And chil...