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William Collins Quotes

«In hollow murmurs died away.»
Author: William Collins | Keywords: hollow, murmurs
«In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong.»
Author: William Collins | Keywords: sweetly, warmly
«O Music! sphere-descended maid, / Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid!»
«Hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires.»
Author: William Collins | Keywords: dim, Hamlets, spire, spires
«How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, / By all their country's wishes blest!»
Author: William Collins | Keywords: blest
«Bathe thy breathing tresses, meekest Eve!»
Author: William Collins | Keywords: bathe, meekest
«Faints the cold work till thou inspire the whole.»
Author: William Collins | Keywords: faints
«Between the dark lakes where the dark rivers flowthere is no ferry waiting on the shore of rockand no man holding a long oar,ready to take your last coin.This is the real earth and the real water it contains.»
Author: William Collins | Keywords: coin, ferry, oar
«I'm not dismayed that poetry's appeal is limited in scope. That's why we have National Poetry Month. It's a sign of its neglect, which isn't necessarily a negative thing. It's not like we have National TV Month.»
Author: William Collins | Keywords: dismayed, scope
«Poetry is the history of the human heart, and it continues to record the history of human emotion, whether it's celebration or grief or whatever it may be.»
Author: William Collins | Keywords: continues

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