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PLANTS see: "FLOWERS" see: "GARDENS" see: "NATURE" for other related links see: "HOME & FAMILY" for other related links Our rocks are rough, but smiling there Th' acacia waves her yellow hair, Lonely and sweet, nor loved the less For flow'ring in a wilderness. --Thomas Moore (17791852) Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician. _Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance_ [1817] ----- bamboo (noun) [bam-bu'] Any of a number of semitropical or tropical grasses often resembling trees, with perennial, jointed stems that are woody, hard, springy, and often hollow and sometimes grow to a height of c. 36 m (c. 120 feet): the stems are used in light construction and for furniture, canes, etc., and the young shoots of some species are eaten. deciduous (di-SIJ-oo-uhs) adj. 1. falling off at a certain season or stage of growth. 2. shedding or losing foliage annually. 3. short-lived; not lasting; ephemeral. effloresce [EF-luh-res], verb: To burst into bloom; blossom. haulm (noun) [halm or hawlm] The stalks or bushy parts of vegetables, grains, grasses, and flowering plants especially if used for animal litter or thatching on your roof. herbivore (noun) ['hκr-bκ-vor] Any creature that eats only plants and vegetables. hydrophyte (noun) A plant adapted to grow in water. Synonyms: aquatic plant, hydrophytic plant, water plant. jardiniere (noun) [zhar-dn-'eer or jar-dn-'eer] 1/ A decorative container for plants or flowers; 2/ A stand or box for plants or flowers, such as a window box. 3/ Diced fresh vegetables served as an accompaniment to meat, as a jardiniere soup. verdant [VUR-dnt], adjective: 1. Covered with growing plants or grass; green with vegetation. 2. Green. 3. Unripe in knowledge, judgment, or experience; unsophisticated; green.  . . see: "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links see: "HAPPINESS" for related links see: "HOME & FAMILY" for related links It was an old, old, old, old lady, And a boy who was half-past three; And the way they played together Was beautiful to see. --Henry Cuyler Bunner (18551896) American poet, novelist, and editor. "One, Two, Three" in _Rowen: 'Second Crop' Songs_ [1892] In our play we reveal what kind of people we are. --Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 B.C.18 A.D.) Roman poet. _Ars amatoria_ (The Art of Love) [c. 2 A.D.] You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. --Plato (427?347 B.C.) Greek philosopher. Attributed in Helen Eisenberg & Larry Eisenberg The Omnibus of Fun_ [1956]. - The day we stop playing is the day we start growing old. --"Mr. Bloom" (Scatman Crothers) [In the "Kick The Can" segment of the film, _The Twilight Zone: The Movie_ [1983]; screenplay by George Clayton Johnson, Richard Matheson and Melissa Mathison.] ----- gambol (intransitive verb) To leap or skip around playfully, or as noun: An instance of leaping around playfully. jocular [JOK-yuh-luhr], adjective: 1. Given to joking or jesting. 2. Characterized by joking; playful. ludic [LOO-dik], adjective: Of or relating to play; characterized by play; playful. . . see: "CHARM, CHEERFULNESS" see: "GOODWILL" see: "GRACE" see: "FRIENDS / FRIENDSHIP" for other related links He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (16941773) British writer and politician. Letter [18 January 1750].. Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not. --F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940) American novelist. _Notebooks_ [1978] If thou wouldest please the Ladies, thou must endeavour to make them pleased with themselves. --Thomas Fuller (16541734) English writer and physician. Comp., _Introductio ad Prudentiam_ [1731] No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness of himself. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. "The Rambler", #104 [16 March 1751] It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. --Publilius Syrus (8543 B.C.) Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave. _Maxims_ I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody. --Herbert Bayard Swope (18821958) American editor and journalist; the first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting [1917]. Speech, St. Louis, Missouri [20 December 1950]. Do not let your peace depend on what people say of you, for whether they speak good or ill of you makes no difference to what you are. True peace and joy is to be found in Me alone. He who is neither anxious to please nor afraid to displease men enjoys true peace. --Thomas a' Kempis (13801471) German ascetical writer. _The Imitation of Christ_ [c. 1420]; Book 3, "Against Slander" ----- complaisant [kuhm-PLAY-suhnt; -zuhnt], adjective: Exhibiting a desire to please; obliging; compliant. fastidious [fa-STID-ee-uhs], adjective: Hard to please; extremely refined or critical. obsequious (adj.) Dutifully compliant, servile, fawningly sycophantic, overly zealous to please or worm one's way into the affection of others. . . see: "HAPPINESS" for related links No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home in Weston-super-Mare. --Sir Kingsley Amis (19221995) English novelist, poet, critic, and father of Martin Amis. "The Times" [21 June 1994] One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. --Jane Austen (17751817) English writer. _Emma_, ch. 9 [1816] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. --Walter Bagehot (18261877) British economist and essayist. _Prospective Review_ [1853] "Shakespeare" I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme. But Money gives me pleasure all the time. --Hilaire Belloc (18701953) British poet, essayist, historian, and novelist. "Fatigue" [1923] Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. _Don Juan_, canto II, st. 178 [1819] Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (16941773) British writer and politician. In William M White (comp.) _Great Truths by Great Authors_, p. 408 [1856]. Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. --Chinese Proverb Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never more enjoy, and therefore regret; and before we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are, consequently, uneasy till we possess them. --Oliver Goldsmith (17281774) Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist. _The Citizen of the World_, Letter XLIV [1762] They that seldom take pleasure seldom give pleasure. --Fulke Greville (15541628) English philosophical poet. _Maxims, Characters, and Reflections, Critical, Satyrical, and Moral_, # CCCCXXXV [2nd ed., 1757] - I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way, But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow, And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me! --Robert Browning Hamilton "Along the Road" in _The Century Magazine_ [February 1913] - Uniform pleasantness is rather a defect than a faculty. It shows that a man hasn't sense enough to know whom to despise. --Thomas Hardy (18401928) English novelist and poet. _A Pair of Blue Eyes_, ch. 9 [1873] Love causes more pain than pleasure. Pleasure is only illusory. Reason would command us to avoid love, if it were not for the fatal sexual impulse therefore it were best to be castrated. --Karl von Hartmann (18421906) German metaphysical philosopher. _Philosophe des Unbewursten_ [1869] One cannot have pleasure without giving it. --Hermann Hesse (18771962) German novelist, poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. _Siddhartha_ [1922] I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. --Aldous Huxley (18941963) English novelist (Grandson of T.H. Huxley.) "Cynthia" in _Limbo_ [1920]. The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment. --Douglas Jerrold (18031857) English playwright and journalist. Quoted in _The Knickerbocker_ vol. LII [November 1858]. - Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. _The Rambler_ [1 December 1750] (English twice-weekly journal 17501752) Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. Quoted in Samuel Arthur Bent _Short Sayings of Great Men_ [1882]. - The first thing men do when they have renounced pleasure, through decency, lassitude, or for the sake of health, is to condemn it in others. Such conduct denotes a kind of latent affection for the very things they left off; they would like no one to enjoy a pleasure they can no longer indulge in; and thus they show their feelings of jealousy. --Jean de La Bruyθre (16451696) French essayist and moralist. "Of Mankind" A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives. --Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (17411803) French soldier and writer. Les Liaisons dangereuses [1782] - There is a pleasure in affecting affectation. --Charles Lamb (17751834) English essayist. "On Books and Reading" in _The London Magazine_ [July 1822]. The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. --Charles Lamb (17751834) English essayist. "Table Talk by the late Elia" in _The Athenaeum_ (London) [4 January 1834]. - The Puritans tried to choke the craving for pleasure in early New England. They had no theater, no dances, no festivals. They burned witches instead. --Walter Lippmann (18891974) American journalist. _A Preface to Politics_, ch. 2 [1914] Who loves not wine, women, and song Remains a fool his whole life long. --attributed to Martin Luther (14831546) German Protestant theologian. It is a curious phenomenon of the human mind ... that past pain is painless in recall, but pleasure past and lost is excruciating to remember. --Judith Merril (19231997) American science fiction author, anthologist, and humanist. _Daughters of Earth_ [1968] There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. --Bertrand Russell (18721970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate. _In Praise of Idleness_ [1932] Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain. --John Selden (15841654) English historian. _Table Talk_ [1689] "Pleasure" I can remember, with unsteady feet, Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which long Have lost their power to please; which when I see them, Raise only now a melancholy wish I were the little trifler once again, Who could be pleas'd so lightly. --Robert Southey (17741843) English poet. "Thalaba the Destroyer", bk. X [1801] That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. --Henry David Thoreau (18171862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. _Journal_ [11 March 1856] What a fearful thing it is that any language should have a word expressive of the pleasure which men feel at the calamities of others, for the existence of the word bears testimony to the existence of the thing. And yet in more than one is such a word to be found ... In Greek epichairekakia, in the German, 'Schadenfreude'. --R. C. Trench (18071886) Irish Archbishop of Dublin, theologian, poet, and amateur philologist. _On the Study of Words_, (ed. 3) II. 29. [1852] I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. --Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (16941778) French writer and philosopher. _Letter to Madame du Deffand_ [23 April 1754], as quoted in Robert Andrews _The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations_ [1993]. Studies in which men and women are asked to rank their pleasures in order of enjoyment show repeatedly that whereas sex is the favourite for most men, many women prefer knitting, gardening and watching television. --Dr. Glenn Wilson (b. 1942) New Zealand-born psychologist. _The Great Sex Divide_ [1989] All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening. --Alexander Woollcott (18871943) American dramatic and literary critic. In R.E. Drennan _Wit's End_ [1973]. ----- anhedonia (noun) [ζn-hee-don-i-yκ] The lack of a capacity to enjoy pleasure. bonhomie (noun): Good nature; pleasant and easy manner. delectation [dee-lek-TAY-shun], noun: Great pleasure; delight, enjoyment. ecstatic (adj.) Showing or feeling great pleasure or delight. fetching (adj.) ['fe-ching] Alluring, fascinating, pleasant. fruition (noun) 1. A pleasure obtained from using or possessing something; enjoyment; 2. A coming to fulfillment; realization a book that is the fruition of years of research. gregarious [grih-GAIR-ee-us], adjective: 1. Tending to form a group with others of the same kind. 2. Seeking and enjoying the company of others. hedonist (noun) ['heed-n-ist] One who lives for pleasure, one who is self gratifying. jocund (adj.) ['jah-kκnd or 'jo-kκnd] Happy, light-hearted, pleasant, carefree, cheerful. sensuous (adj.) ['sen-shu-wκs] Gratifying the senses, aesthetically enjoying the pleasures of the senses. sybarite [SIB-uh-ryt], noun: A person devoted to luxury and pleasure. voluptuary [vuh-LUHP-choo-er-ee], noun: A person devoted to luxury and the gratification of sensual appetites; a sensualist. adjective: Voluptuous; luxurious. . . I have a great respect for the flag, (but) if the government ... passed a law saying that I had to pledge allegiance to the flag, I don't think I would do it. I've always felt that I lived in a country ... where if I wanted to worship God as a Baptist I could do so. If I were an atheist, I could be one. If I wanted to be a Catholic but was born a Jew, there's no condemnation ... from a government authority. --Jimmy Carter (b. 1924) American Democratic statesman, President [1977-81]. Speech at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia [14 September 1988]. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. "Declaration of Independence" [4 July 1776] I ... wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation. --Carl Sagan (19341996) American astronomer and author. _The Demon-Haunted World_ [1997] ;void(0)) PLUMBERS . . see: "OCCUPATIONS" for related links - The plumber should be put down with the tax-gatherer as a being as certain as fate and as inexorable [..] You will come to have an un-natural hatred for the man and his myrmidons. He leaves nothing behind you to eat as does the butcher, nothing to wear as does the tailor, nothing to delight you nothing finally, in which you may exult among your acquaintance. Whoever spoke among his friends of his plumber, or boasted of his intimacy with that dark, silent and seemingly sullen man who comes so frequently and on his coming has nothing to say for himself? The plumber is doubtless aware that he is odious. He feels himself like Dickens' turnpike man, to be the enemy of mankind. --Anthony Trollope (18151882) English novelist [son of Frances Trollope.] "The Plumber" [1880] - ;void(0)) POE, EDGAR ALLAN . . see: "AUTHORS" see: "WRITING" see: "PEOPLE" for other related links - To purchase cigars, a guest at the Astor House had only to step into the tobacconist's on the ground floor. Frequent and unnecessary trips were made in the hopes of becoming more closely acquainted with the shop's special attraction, a ravishing salesgirl named Mary Cecilia Rogers. Mary wisely let it be known that she dwelt under the eagle eye of her old mother at the latter's boardinghouse on Nassau Street. Consequently, her clientele was surprised to read in the papers that Miss Rogers had mysteriously disappeared. A week later, just as the police were about to begin an intensive investigation, she rematerialized, reciting a vague story of having taken the airs for a spell at the home of relatives in the country. There was gossip, all the same, and she was embarrassed into giving up her lucrative post at the hotel. This transpired in February of 1842. Five months later, the press had much more sensational and tragic news to report. Again Mary had disappeared, but this time her battered body had been found floating in the Hudson in the vicinity of Weehawken. Amazingly, the only valid solution to her murder was suggested by a struggling young Southern journalist recently arrived in New York. Too poor to frequent the Astor House, his involvement with the incident came no closer than reading the daily reports in the papers. Changing only the names of the principals and places connected with the case, Edgar Allan Poe was able to reconstruct the crime and deduce the identity of Mary's actual murderer in his chilling "Mystery of Marie Roget." --Michael & Ariane Batterberry _On The Town In New York_ [1999] - He was an adventurer into the vaults and cellars and horrible underground passages of the human soul. He sounded the horror and the warning of his own doom. --D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (18851930) English novelist and poet. _Studies In Classic American Literature_ [1924] Poe ... was perhaps the first great nonstop literary drinker of the American nineteenth century. He made the indulgences of Coleridge and De Quincey seem like a bit of mischief in the kitchen with the cooking sherry. --James Thurber (18941961) American humorist and cartoonist. _Alarms and Diversions_ [1957] . . see: "AUTHORS" see: "BOOKS" see: "CHILDREN'S RHYME" see: "LITERATURE" see: "QUOTATIONS" see: "READING" see: "SHAKESPEARE" see: "WORDS" see: "WRITING" Our poets ... spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial. --Edward Abbey (19271989) American author. _A Voice Crying in the Wilderness_ (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) [1989], ch. 5 "On Writing and Writers, Books and Art" - It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it. --W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (19071973) English-born poet and man of letters. _The Dyer's Hand_ [1962] A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. --W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (19071973) English-born poet and man of letters. _Shorts II_ [1976] - Eloquence is the poetry of prose. --William Cullen Bryant (17941878) American poet and editor. "On the Nature of Poetry", the first of four lectures given at New York Athenaeum [April 1825]. All poets are mad. --Robert Burton (15771640) English scholar, cleric, and author. _The Anatomy of Melacholy_ "Democritus to the Reader" [1624] I've half a mind to tumble down to prose, But verse is more in fashion so here goes. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. _Beppo_ [1818] The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist. "Don Quixote de la Mancha", pt. II, ch. III [1615] I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by proper culture, care, attention and labor, make himself whatever he pleases, except a great poet. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (16941773) British writer and politician. Letter to his son [9 October 1746]. Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. --G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (18741936) English essayist, novelist, and poet. "Cheese" (essay) in _Alarms and Discursions_ [1911]. - No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) English poet, critic, and philosopher. _Biographia Literaria_, ch. 22 [1817] Prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in the best order. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) English poet, critic, and philosopher. _Table Talk_ "23 July 1827" [1835] - We campaign in poetry, but when we're elected we're forced to govern in prose. --Mario Cuomo (b. 1932) American lawyer and politician. Speech at Yale University, New Haven, Conn. [15 February 1985]. The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. --Salvador Dali (19041989) Spanish painter. Preface to Pierre Cabanne _Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp_ [1968]. If I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. --Charles Darwin (18091882) English naturalist. _Autobiography_ (ed. Francis Darwin) [1887] - Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day. --Charles Dickens (18121870) English novelist. _The Pickwick Papers_, ch. XXXIII [1837] Dear Blanchard, too much string - Yours, CD. --Charles Dickens (18121870) English novelist. Letter to Laman Blanchard, who had sent him a copy of some verses entitled "Orient Pearls at Random Strung". Quoted in Frederick Locker Lampson _My Confidences_ [1896]. - Oppenheimer, they tell me you are writing poetry. I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say ... something that everybody knows already in words that nobody can understand. --Paul Dirac (19021984) British theoretical physicist. To Robert Oppenheimer at Gφttingen, quoted in I.A. Richards, "The Writer and Semantics" in _Arena_ [24 October 1965]. All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. --Lord Alfred Douglas (18701945) English poet. _Collected Poems_ [1919] - Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better. --T.S. Eliot (18881965) Anglo-American poet, critic, and dramatist. _The Sacred Wood_ [1920] "Philip Massinger" How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot! With his features of clerical cut, And his brow so grim And his mouth so prim And his conversation, so nicely Restricted to What Precisely And If and Perhaps and But. --T.S. Eliot (18881965) Anglo-American poet, critic, and dramatist. "Five-Finger Exercises" [1936] - As a poet [Ogden] Nash works under two disadvantages: he is a humorist, and he is easy to understand. --Clifton Fadiman (19041999) American critic and author. _Party for One_ [1955] - A poem ... begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. ... It finds the thought and the thought finds the words. --Robert Frost (18741963) American poet. Letter to Louis Untermeyer [1 January 1916]. Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. --Robert Frost (18741963) American poet. In a talk at the Milton [Massachsetts] Academy [17 May 1935]. No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader. For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. --Robert Frost (18741963) American poet. "The Figure a Poem Makes" preface to _Collected Poems_ [1939]. - His gentle spirit rolls In the melody of souls Which is pretty, but I don't know what it means. --W. S. Gilbert (18361911) English writer of comic and satirical verse. "The Story of Prince Agib", st. II One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. _Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre_ (Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship), bk. 5, ch. I [1795-96] [Remark to William Butler Yeats:] Poets should never marry. The world should thank me for not marrying you. --Maud Gonne (18671953) English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist and actress. Quoted in Nancy Cardozo _Lucky Eyes and a High Heart: The Life of Maud Gonne_ [1978]. I saw a Melancholy Wasp Upon a Purple Clover Knosp, Who wept, 'The Poets do me Wrong, Excluding me from Noble Song Though Pure am I and Wholly Crimeless Because, they say, my Name is Rhymeless! Oh, had I but been born a Bee, With Heaps of Words to Rhyme with me, I should not want for Panegyrics In Sonnets, Epics, Odes and Lyrics! Will no one free me from the Curse That bars my Race from Lofty Verse?' 'My Friend, that Little Thing I'll care for At once,' said I and that is wherefore So tenderly I set that Wasp Upon a Purple Clover Knosp. --Arthur Guiterman (18711943) American poet. "Kindness to Insects" [Ezra] Pound's crazy. All poets are ... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. For history's sake we shouldn't keep him there. --Ernest Hemingway (18891961) American novelist. Commenting on Pound's incarceration in St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. Quoted by Leonard Lyons in the "New York Post" [24 January 1957]. Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse; One comfort we have Cincinnati sounds worse. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (18091894) American physician, poet, and essayist. "Welcome to the Chicago Commercial Club" [14 January 1880] - No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers. --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (658 B.C.) Roman poet. _Epistles_ Book I, Epistle XIX, Line 2 [c. 20 B.C.] The man is either mad, or he is making verses. --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (658 B.C.) Roman poet. _Satires_, II, 7, 117, as quoted in Kate Louise Roberts _Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations_, p. 607 [1922]. - If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all. --John Keats (17951821) English poet. Letter to John Taylor [27 February 1818]. The notion of expressing sentiments in short lines having similar sounds at their ends seems as remote as mangoes on the moon. --Philip Larkin (19221985) English poet. Letter to Barbara Pym [22 January 1975]. - Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. _Hyperion_ [1839] [T]he bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. "The Day is Done" st. 5 [1844] - My favorite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something. --Groucho [Julius Henry] Marx (18951977) American film comedian. In Ned Sherrin's _Cutting Edge_ [1984]. A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. _Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks_ [1956] Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. --Adrian Mitchell (19322008) English poet, novelist, and dramatist. _Poems_ [1964] Byron and Shelley and Keats Were a trio of lyrical treats. The forehead of Shelley was cluttered with curls, And Keats never was a descendant of earls, And Byron walked out with a number of girls, But it didn't impair the poetical feats Of Byron and Shelley, Of Byron and Shelley, Of Byron and Shelley and Keats. --Dorothy Parker (18931967) American critic and humorist. "A Pig's Eye View Of Literature" Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. --Plato (427?347 B.C.) Greek philosopher. _The Republic_, bk. II, sec. 5 [c. 380 B.C.] Sir, I admit your gen'ral rule That every poet is a fool: But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet. --Alexander Pope (16881744) English poet. "Epigram from the French", l. I [1732] I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. --attributed to Carl Sandburg (18781967) American poet. Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. --Edmund Clarence Stedman (18331908) American poet and anthologist. _Victorian Poets_ [1887] So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. Thus every poet, in his kind, Is bit by him that comes behind. --Jonathan Swift (16671745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. "Poetry--A Rhapsody" [1733] - Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) English poet. "The Princess: A Medley" [1847] Vex not thou the poet's mind With thy shallow wit: Vex not thou the poet's mind; For thou canst not fathom it. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) English poet. "The Poet's Mind" - The people of New England are by nature patient and forebearing but there are some things which they will not stand. Every year they kill a lot of poets for writing about 'Beautiful Spring.' These are generally casual visitors who bring their notions of spring from somewhere else. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. In a speech to the New England Society [December 1876]. Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. --Paul Valιry (18711945) French poet. Attributed in "The Reporter" [1958]. The little girl had the making of a poet in her who, being told to make sure of her meaning before she spoke, said, 'How can I know what I think till I see what I say?' --Graham Wallas (18581932) English political scientist. _The Art of Thought_, ch. 4 [1926] I think there is no such thing as a long poem. If it is long it isn't a poem; it is something else. A book like 'John Brown's Body', for instance, is not a poem it is a series of poems tied together with cord. Poetry is intensity, and nothing is intense for long. --E.B. [Elwyn Brooks] White (18991985) American essayist and literary stylist. _One Man's Meat_ [1944] "Poetry" We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. --William Butler Yeats (18651939) Irish poet and dramatist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. _Essays_ [1924] - There was a young man from Japan Whose poetry no one could scan When asked about it, He said, yes I admit That I always try to work as many words as possible into the last lines of my poems as I possibly can. --anon. Poetry is proof that rhyme doesn't pay. --anon. - In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku has strict construction rules. Each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, and 5 in the third. They are used to communicate timeless messages, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity. Instead of making you want to throw your computer out the window, they have a calming effect. For example: The Web site you seek Cannot be located, but Countless more exist. Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much. Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. Your file was so big. It must have been quite useful. But now it is gone. Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down. A crash reduces Your expensive computer To a simple stone. Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred. You step in the stream, But the water has moved on. This page is not here. Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky, But we never will. Having been erased, The document you're seeking Must now be retyped. Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. All is blank. First snow, then silence This thousand dollar screen dies So beautifully. --author unknown - ----- aubade [oh-BAHD] noun: A song or poem greeting the dawn; also, a composition suggestive of morning. epigram (noun) ['e-pκ-grζm] A short poem or poetic line ending on a witty thought. idyll [EYE-dl], noun: 1. A simple descriptive work, either in poetry or prose, dealing with simple, rustic life; pastoral scenes; and the like. 2. A narrative poem treating an epic, romantic, or tragic theme. paean (noun) ['pee-κn] A song, poem, or other profession of profound joy, gratitude, or triumph. (The original paean was a hymn of praise sung to Apollo or other gods for safety before going into battle or on other occasions. 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