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“The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the object of our hatreds. Indeed, you crisscross Italy only to meticulously sniff out the traces of our oppressive past, and you are happy, insanely happy, if you have the good fortune to carry home some miserable stone on which our ancestors have trodden.”

Ifs Home Past Pay Objects Stones Hatred Fortune Dear Miserable Compliment Ancestor Good Fortune What You Love Peninsulas Compliments You

Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt; Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay.”

War States Reason Age Lasts Games Names Nations Regret Hero Stones Raises Dear Debt Decay Everlasting Medal Rust Wreaths

Book:The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author

Source: The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author

“"Hope to the last!" said Newman, clapping him on the back. "Always hope; that's dear boy. Never leave off hoping; it don't answer. Do you mind me, Nick? it don't answer. Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of no use doing anything. Hope, hope, to the last!"”

Knows Inspirational Mind Said Done Use Lasts Answers Boys Stones Dear Newman Clapping

Author:Charles Dickens

“Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere.”

Hard Lying Speak Heaven Grief Cry Mines Stones Dear Grieving Spheres Darling

Author:Petrarch

“Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.”

Made Stills Inspiration Pain Voice Sleep Please Lows Stones Guilt Dear Blindness Me Alone Numbness Please Me

Book:Sonnets of Michelangelo

Source: Sonnets of Michelangelo

“Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives. The harder to hear your neighbors scream, my dear,' was David’s answer, and I sent my head up and down in agreement.”

Way Years Said Bigs House Answers Seeing Stones Harder Dear Neighbor Agreement Iron Scream Fence Eighty Up And Down Oaks Lawns Shady Heads Up

Author:Kim Harrison

“My mother said, "kiss him, darling, it's easy so natural" and I thought to myself, not with lips of stone, dear mother, not with lips of stone”

Said Mother Easy Natural Kissing Stones Lips Dear Darling Dear Mother

Book:How to (Un)cage a Girl

Source: How to (Un)cage a Girl

“... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth, the tower of Babel has pierced the sky, the lovely temples and the gray castles have fallen into ruins. But of all those things which hands have built, what hasn’t fallen nor ever will fall? Dear friends, throw away the trowel and mortarboard! Throw your masons’ aprons over your heads and lie down to build dreams! What are temples of stone and clay to the soul? Learn to build eternal mansions of dreams and visions!”

“I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.”

Thinking Hard Home Land Planets Garden Stones Dear Familiar Exile Sojourners

Book:Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

“No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed; Lay that on your heart, My young angry dear; This truth, this hard and precious stone, Lay it on your hot cheek, Let it hide your tear. Hold it like a crystal When you are alone And gaze in the depths of the icy stone. Long, look long and you will be blessed: No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.”

Looks Heart Long Hard Young Tears Stones Hot Blessed Angry Lays Depth Dear Possessed Cheeks Crystals Possessing Icy Being Blessed Precious Stones

Book:Strange victory: by Sara Teasdale

Source: Strange victory: by Sara Teasdale

“What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?”

Needs Should Age Names Stars Memories Son Fame Stones Weak Dear Bones Witness Labour Honour Pointing Pyramids Heirs Relics

Author:John Milton