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British & Irish Authors on the Web - Large number of links to information about authors from 600 AD to the present.
Rosemary Schonfeld - Poetry for adults and teenagers by this writer and musician. Information about her books and music on the site.
Sweet Flag - Poetry By David Osbon - Selective Poetry by David Osbon
McLean, Annie - Free verse and rhyme including humourous, romantic, melancholic, ghostly, love poems and children's verse: profile, links and information about Black Room Poets.
Voices of the Heart - Poems by R J Salisbury: guestbook, links and email address.
Haiku Beach - A modest site dedicated to haiku poetry. The site contains haiku written by the site creator and encourages participation by other haiku poets. Managed by Colin Shaddick.
Barnes, Keith - Dedicated to the English beat poet, 1934-1969, including 'K.B.' published by Maurice Nadeau in 1987, 'Les Bougons' (2002) by Jacqueline Starer and information on writers of the beat generation. English and French.
Poetic Spirit - Original poetry and prose by Belfast based W A Mack.
Camelot Revisited - A lighthearted look at the Arthurian legends through The Alternative Idylls of Allan Scott, plus the developing epic poem Glastonbury and other personal verses.
New Dawn Poetry - London born poet Daniel North: biography, poem archive, guestbook and email address.
The Poetry Shed - Poems by Bloke and email contact.
Tales of the Borderline Piney - A preface by Anthony John Ciccariello III.
Whitby, Christopher - Sonnets and note on the author.
Darren Bailey - Poetry books by an Anglican priest, dealing with relationships, spirituality and alcohol. Includes biography, examples, catalogue, and ordering information.
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan Poets The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Poets "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be Poets The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry Poets A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. -- Oscar Wilde "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain Poets It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar Poets It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert Schuller It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers Poets Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake Poets There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Poets Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth Poets It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner Poets My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Poets My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Poets Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows Poets "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Poets They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Poets "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Poets Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Poets I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton Poets "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Poets I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University Poets "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Poets
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