Language
Robert Browning
Ah, did you once see Shelley plain.
Shakespeare unlocked his heart,’ once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he!
‘With this same key
If you get simple beauty and naught else,
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
Rupert Brooke
History repeats itself; historians repeat one another.
Unkempt about those hedges blows
Jorge Luis Borges
The original is unfaithful to the translation. of Henley’s translation of Beckford ’s Vathek
Niels Bohr
Never express yourself more clearly than you think.
William Blake
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
Hear the voice of the Bard!
My mother bore me in the southern wild,
Piping down the valleys wild,
What is it men in women do require?
Exuberance is beauty.
Damn braces: Bless relaxes.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by Incapacity.
