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Date: 1903
"When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds may take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of the brimming mind."
preview | full record— Wickham, E. C. (1834-1910); Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] (65 BC - 8 BC)
Date: 1940
"In the deserts of the heart / Let the healing fountain start."
preview | full record— Auden, W. H. (1907-1973)
Date: 1959
"Still beneath / Live skin stone breathes, about which fires but play, / Fierce heart that is the iced brain's to command / To judgment -- studied reflex, contained breath) -- / Their best of worlds since, on the ordained day, / This world went spinning from Jehovah's hand."
preview | full record— Hill, Geoffrey (b. 1932)
