The Cambridge Poetry Page - Listings of events, venues, contact names, bookshops, magazines, poets, web sites and anything else to do with poetry in Cambridge.
Children's Poetry in the Poetry Zone - An inter-active poetry website for children and anyone interested in children's poetry. It also contains poems by well-known children's poets and some educational material for teachers
Poetry Magazines - Full-text digital library of 20th and 21st century English poetry magazines from the Poetry Library collection. Free access.
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Resources Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Resources
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Resources Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Resources
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Resources He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Resources
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Resources "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Resources
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Resources Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Resources
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Resources A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Resources
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Resources "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Resources
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Resources Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Resources
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Resources "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Resources
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Resources A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Resources
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Resources I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Resources
