Literature composition
 IF - Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give
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By:
Magnolia
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Published:
November 18, 2009 - 1:13 pm
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By:
Magnolia
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Published:
November 18, 2009 - 12:27 pm
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By:
Magnolia
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Published:
November 18, 2009 - 12:06 pm
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 Love is so short, forgetting is so long....
Poem XX
Tonight I Can Write
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write, for example, "The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance."
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too
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By:
Shari
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Published:
September 30, 2009 - 7:43 pm
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 I love you
Love Sonnet XVII
I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as certain dark things are loved,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom and carries
hidden within itself the light of
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By:
Shari
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Published:
September 29, 2009 - 10:40 pm
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 Farewell letter from Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If for an instant God were to forget that I am rag doll and gifted me with a piece of life, possibly I wouldn't say all that I think, but rather I would think of all that I say. I would value things, not for their worth but for what they mean. I would sleep little, dream more, understanding that for
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Quote of the Day
A saint is a dead sinner, revised and edited.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
Category:
Saints
Events of the Day
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Birthday:
Tristan Bernard
Biography: Was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer.
... Date of Birth:
September 07, 1866. Died on:
December 07, 1947 at 81 years. |
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Died:
Sidney Lanier
Biography: Was an American musician and poet.... Date of Birth:
February 03, 1842. Died on:
September 07, 1881 at 39 years. |
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Died:
John Greenleaf Whittier
Biography: Was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in... Date of Birth:
December 17, 1807. Died on:
September 07, 1892 at 85 years. |
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