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O my Luve is like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June.




Robert Burns - 'A Red, Red Rose'




A narrow Fellow in the Grass Occasionally rides -




Emily Dickinson - 'A narrow Fellow in the Grass'




Hope is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul.




Emily Dickinson - 'Hope is the thing with feathers'




Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by.




Robert Frost - 'The Road Not Taken'




Fog comes on little cat feet.




Carl Sandburg - 'Fog'




Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.




Sylvia Plath - 'Lady Lazarus'




But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: 'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.'




W.H. Auden - 'As I Walked Out One Evening'




She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies;




Lord Byron - 'She Walks in Beauty'




The world is but a canvas to our imagination.




Henry David Thoreau - from his journal




The stars are the street lights of eternity.




Unknown - This metaphor is often cited but not attributed to a specific poem or poet.




The Mind is an Enchanted Thing - like the glaze on a katydid-wing




Emily Dickinson - 'The Mind is an Enchanted Thing'




My love is like to ice, and I to fire:




Edmund Spenser - 'Amoretti Sonnet 30'




Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage




William Shakespeare - 'Macbeth'




His soul sat tight in its husk, as a kernel in a hard, green fruit.




Ted Hughes - 'Hawk Roosting'




Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.




Nathaniel Hawthorne - from his notebooks
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