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“Yet how proud we are, In daring to look down upon ourselves!”

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This compilation includes a diverse range of poems, showcasing the author's poetic style and thematic concerns across various genres and historical periods. more

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a prominent English Romantic poet, was born on March 6, 1806, and died on June 29, 1861. Her poetry is renowned for its profound emotions and rich imagination, making her one of the greatest female poets of the 19th century. more

“... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.”

Needs May Children Doe Art Poetry Sex Creativity Creative Poet Baby Labor Metaphor Motherhood Pregnancy Fulfilling Privileged Sailing Slurs Yeats Byzantium

Author:Cynthia Ozick

“What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past--the whole life of a civilization--but also a major share ofthe Jewish future.... [ellipsis in source] It was not only the intellect of a people in its prime that was excised, but the treasure of a people in its potential.”

People Whole Past Lost Share Source Civilization Majors Intellect Whole Life Treasure Prime Holocaust

Author:Cynthia Ozick

“The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.”

World Important Eye Seeing Type Classroom

Author:Jack Hanna

“The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible; and the same remedy will make us so.”

People Men Made Country Hands Care Age Law Death Spirit Responsibility Military Duty Standards Standing Army Soldier Every Man Oppression Greek Engines Rulers Remedy Invincible

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.”

Men Two War Saws Military Becoming Conflict Argument Warm Instance Shooting Rude Disputes Convincing

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one.”

Way Wisdom Winning Casinos

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.”

May Persons Government Citizens Property Protection Entitled

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state

“My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.”

Principles Consequence

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

“The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.”

War Blood Lamps

Book:Jefferson Abroad

Source: Jefferson Abroad

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