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PLANTS
PLAY --- PLEASANT
PLEASING (OTHERS) --- PLEASURE --- PLEDGES
PLUMBERS --- POE (EDGAR ALLAN)
POETRY

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PLANTS

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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 (1779-1852)
Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician.
_Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance_ [1817]

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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.

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) ['hêr-bê-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

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.
Ex.: Drab in winter, then suddenly sodden with alpine
runoff, the region turns dazzlingly verdant in spring.
--Patricia Albers,
"Shadows, Fire, Snow"




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It is a happy talent to know how to play.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
American philosopher and poet.
Journals [1834]

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
--Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 B.C.-18 A.D.)
Roman poet.
_The Art of Love_

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.

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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.
Ex.: But within this ludic tale there lurks a tragedy of love
and loss that does not lose its tenderness even when
embedded in [the author's] perpetually farcical frame of
mind.
--Richard Bernstein, "Lalita, Post-Modern Object of
Desire," _New York Times_ [8 September 1999]




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PLEASANT

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bonhomie ah-nuh-MEE, noun:
Good nature; pleasant and easy manner.
Ex.: And what of the salesman's fabled bonhomie, the Willy
Lomanesque emphasis on the importance of being liked?
--"How to Manage Salespeople",
_Fortune_ [14 March 1988]

fetching (adj.) ['fe-ching]
Alluring, fascinating, pleasant.

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.

jocund (adj.) ['jah-kênd or 'jo-kênd]
Happy, light-hearted, pleasant, carefree, cheerful.




PLEASING (OTHERS)

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see: "CHARM"
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] (1694-1773)
British writer and politician.

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 (1896-1940)
American novelist.
_Notebooks_ [1978]

If thou wouldst please the ladies, thou
must endeavor to make them pleased
with themselves.
--Thomas Fuller (1654-1734)
English writer and physician.

No man is much pleased with a companion who does
not increase, in some respect, his fondness of
himself.
--Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.

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It is a very hard undertaking to seek
to please everybody.
--Publilius Syrus (85-43 B.C.)
Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave.
_Maxims_


Let your life be pleasing to the multitude,
and it cannot be so to yourself.
--Publilius Syrus (85-43 B.C.)
Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave.

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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I
can give you the formula for failure - which is;
try to please everybody.
--Herbert Swope (1928 - )
American biochemist

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complaisant kuhm-PLAY-suhnt; -zuhnt, adjective:
Exhibiting a desire to please; obliging; compliant.
Ex.: "But the relationship between the two countries, which
was based on cold geopolitical realities, had no chance of
transforming Beijing into a complaisant ally."
--Jacob Heilbrunn, "The next cold war,"
_New Republic_, [20 November 1995]
Note: Complacent means "self-satisfied, contented,"
but it can also mean "eager to please."

obsequious (adj.)
Dutifully compliant, servile, fawningly sycophantic,
overly zealous to please or worm one's way into the
affection of others.




PLEASURE

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No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake
of two more years in a geriatric home in
Weston-super-Mare.
--Sir Kingsley Amis (1922-1995)
English novelist, poet, critic, and father of Martin Amis.
"The Times" [21 June 1994], attributed

The great pleasure in life is doing what
people say you cannot do.
--Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)
British economist and essayist.
_Prospective Review_ [1853] "Shakespeare"

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after.
--Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788-1824)
English Romantic poet and satirist.
_Don Juan_ [1819-1824]

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] (1694-1773)
British writer and politician.
In William M White (comp.)
_Great Truths by Great Authors_, p. 408 [1856].

They that seldom take pleasure seldom give pleasure.
--Fulke Greville (1554-1628)
English philosophical poet.

One cannot have pleasure without giving it.
--Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
German novelist, poet, and winner of the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.

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 Bruyère (1645-1696)
French essayist and moralist.
"Of Mankind"

A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman
the happiness she gives.
--Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803)
French soldier and writer.
Les Liaisons dangereuses [1782]

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The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good
action by stealth, and to have it found out by
accident.
--Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
English essayist.
"Table Talk by the late Elia" in
_The Athenaeum_ [4 January 1834]


There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
--Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
English essayist.

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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 (1889-1974)
American journalist.
_A Preface to Politics_ [1914] Ch. 2

Who loves not wine, women, and song
Remains a fool his whole life long.
--attributed to Martin Luther (1483-1546)
German Protestant theologian.

The sweetest pleasure comes from difficulties
overcome.
--Publilius Syrus (85-43 B.C.)
Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave.

Pleasure is nothing else but the
intermission of pain.
--John Selden (1584-1654)
English historian.
_Table Talk_ [1689] "Pleasure"

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 (François Marie Arouet) (1694-1778)
French writer and philosopher.
Letter to Madame du Deffand.

Studies in which men and women were asked to rank
their pleasures in order of enjoyment show repeatedly
that whereas sex is the favorite for most men, many
women prefer knitting.
--Dr. Glenn Wilson

All the things I really like to do are either
immoral, illegal, or fattening.
--Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943)
American dramatic and literary critic.
In R.E. Drennan _Wit's End_ [1973].

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delectation dee-lek-TAY-shun, noun:
Great pleasure; delight, enjoyment.

ecstatic (adj.)
Showing or feeling great pleasure or delight

sybarite SIB-uh-ryt, noun:
A person devoted to luxury and pleasure.




PLEDGES

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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 (1924- )
American Democratic statesman, President [1977-1981].

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 (1934-1996)
American astronomer and author.





PLUMBERS

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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 (1815-1882)
English novelist [son of Frances Trollope].
"The Plumber" [1880]




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POE, EDGAR ALLAN

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
American poet and short-story writer

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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 (1885-1930)
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 (1894-1961)
American humorist and cartoonist.
_Alarms and Diversions_ [1957]




POETRY

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see: "POETS"


A poet's hope: to be,
like some valley cheese,
local, but prized elsewhere.
--W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907-1973)
English-born poet and man of letters.
_Shorts II_ [1976]

All poets are mad.
--Robert Burton (1577-1640)
English scholar, cleric, and author.
_The Anatomy of Melacholy_ [1621-1651]

I've half a mind to tumble down to prose,
But verse is more in fashion--so here goes.
--Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788-1824)
English Romantic poet and satirist.
_Beppo_ [1818]

Poets have been mysteriously silent
on the subject of cheese.
--G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874-1936)
English essayist, novelist, and poet.

Oppenheimer, they tell me you are writing poetry. I
do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of
physics and write a 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 (1902-1984)
British theoretical physicist.
To Robert Oppenheimer at Göttingen, quoted in
I.A. Richards, "The Writer and Semantics" in _Arena_ [24 October 1965].

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad
poets deface what they take, and good poets
make it into something better.
--T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Anglo-American poet, critic, and dramatist.

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A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense
of wrong, a homesickness.... It finds the thought
and the thought finds the words.
--Robert Frost (1874-1963)
American poet.


Writing free verse is like playing
tennis with the net down.
--Robert Frost (1874-1963)
American poet.
in a talk at the Milton [Massachsetts] Academy [17 May 1935]

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His gentle spirit rolls
In the melody of souls--
Which is pretty, but I don't know what it means.
--W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911)
English writer of comic and satirical verse.
"The Story of Prince Agib"

No poems can please for long or live that are
written by water-drinkers.
--Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65-8 BC)
Roman poet.
_Epistles_, Book I [C. 20 BC], Epistle XIX, Line 2

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves
to a tree, it had better not come at all.
--John Keats (1795-1821)
English poet.

The notion of expressing sentiments in short lines
having similar sounds at their ends seems as remote
as mangoes on the moon.
--Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
English poet.
Letter to Barbara Pym [22 January 1975].

My favorite poem is the one that starts "Thirty days
hath September" because it actually tells you something.
--Groucho [Julius Henry] Marx (1895-1977)
American film comedian.
(In Ned Sherrin's _Cutting Edge_ [1984])

Most people ignore most poetry because
most poetry ignores most people.
--Adrian Mitchell (1932- )
English poet, novelist, and dramatist.
_Poems_ [1964]

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
--Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
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 (1833-1908)
American poet and anthologist.
_Victorian Poets_ [1887]

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.
--John Wain (1925-1994)
English poet, novelist, and critic.

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 (1899-1985)
American essayist and literary stylist.
"Poetry" _One Man's Meat_ [1944]

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric,
but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
--William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Irish poet and dramatist who received the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
_Essays_ [1924]

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Poetry is proof that rhyme doesn't pay.
--anon.

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POEMS AT:
http://plagiarist.com/poetry/list/
http://oldpoetry.com/
http://www.poetryloverspage.com/

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epigram (noun) ['e-pê-græm]
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-ên]
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. Do not confuse it with peon ['pee-ahn], a serf,
slave, drudge, or underpaid worker.)


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