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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Well, they are gone, and here must I remain,
Like one, that on a lonesome road
Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing,
The Night-mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she,
As idle as a painted ship
Water, water, everywhere,
‘Why look’st thou so?’—With my cross-bow
He holds him with his glittering eye—
All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
And all who heard should see them there,
A damsel with a dulcimer
It was a miracle of rare device,
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin
Leonard Cohen
I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
Jean Cocteau
Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Say not the struggle naught availeth,
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.
Cícero
How long will you abuse our patience, Catiline?