There's precious little to say between day and dark, Perhaps a few words on the implacable will Of … - Allen Tate

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It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

Allen Tate

There's precious little to say between day and dark, Perhaps a few words on the implacable will Of time sailing like a magic barque Or something as fine for the amenities.

Dark, Magic, Sailing, Say, Twilight

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Peering, I heard the hooves come down the hill. The posse passed, twelve horse; the leader's face Was worn as limestone on an ancient sill.

Come, Hooves, Horse, Leader, Posse, Twelve

My darling boy whom I shall never know, My son, I love you in my deepest fears.

Boys, Darling, Deepest, Love, Love You, Son

For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist The mortal youth of Christ astride an ass.

Church, Glasses, Twists, Untwist, Virgin

Death's long anabasis.

Anabasis, Long

Men cannot live forever But they must die forever.

Die, Forever, Live, Live Forever, Men

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It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

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David Foster Wallace

Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see or let anyone else see, and this stuff usually turns out (paradoxically) to be precisely the stuff all writers and readers share and respond to, feel.

Fiction, Fun, See, Writers, Writing

Sarah MacLean

Ralston didn't care. He turned on his brother as the surgeon knelt next to him and inspected the wound. "She could have been killed!" And what about you?" This time, it was Callie who spoke, her own pent-up energy releasing in anger, and the men turned as one to look at her, surprised that she and found her voice. "What about you and your idiotic pland to somehow restore my honor by playing guns out in the middle of nowhere with OXFORD?" She said the baron's name in disdain. "Like children? Of all the ridiculous, unnecessary, thoughtless, MALE things to do. . . who even FIGHTS duels anymore?!

Brother, Children, Fighting, Middle, Playing, Restore

James Russell Lowell

One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while it is perhaps the most difficult attainment of mere style, is also no doubtful indication of personal character. There must be something essentially noble in an elective ruler who can descend to the level of confidential ease without forfeiting respect, something very manly in one who can break through the etiquette of his conventional rank and trust himself to the reason and intelligence of those who have elected him.

Break Through, Character, Confidential, Doubtful, Rank, Style

Marion Davies

To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster.

Ocean, Parks, Things, Venice, Youngster