Antonio Porchia Quotes
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Catch then, O! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short Summer - man a flower, He dies - alas! how soon he dies!
Samuel Johnson
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A foot more light, a step more true,Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew.
Walter Scott
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Awakening hope has named the nameOf love, or blown its spark to flame.Restlessness, but as the winds rangeFrom leaf to leaf, from flower to flower;Changefulness, but as rainbows change,From colour'd sky to sunlit hour.Ay, well indeed may minstrel sing,-What have the heart and year like spring?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Can you look at a flower without thinking?
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The flower of olden sanctities.
Coventry Patmore
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Life after all is made up of eating and sleeping, of meeting and saying good-by to friends, of reunions and farewell parties, of tears and laughter, of having a haircut once in two weeks, of watering a potted flower and watching one’s neighbor fall off his roof.
Lin Yutang
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.
William Shakespeare
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In almost every edition (and consequently most performances) of Chopin's Sonata in B flat Minor, Op. 35, there is a serious error that makes awkward nonsense of an important moment in the first movement. The repeat of the exposition begins in the wrong place.
Charles Rosen
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A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
J. G. Holland
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Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.
Willa Cather
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Love, when it fits inside a flower, is infinite.
Antonio Porchia