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A little learning is a dangerous thing ( from a
poem
by Alexander Pope )
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A narrow fellow in the grass ( from a
poem
by Emily Dickinson )
A thing of beauty is a joy forever ( from a
poem
by Keats )
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And miles to go before I sleep ( from a
poem
by Robert Frost )
Barnyard
language
Beauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all ( from a
poem
by Keats )
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me ( from a
poem
by Dickinson )
Body
language
Busy old fool, unruly sun ( from a
poem
by John Donne )
But at my back I always hear ( from a
poem
by Marvell )
Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker ( from a
poem
by Nash )
Chapter and
verse
Character driven
fiction
Charge of the Light Brigade ( British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a
poem
by Tennyson )
Come Into The Garden Maud ( Tennyson
poem
and Victorian song )
Do not go gentle into that good night ( from a
poem
by Dylan Thomas )
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes ( Ben Jonson
poem
and Victorian song )
Fact not
fiction
Foul
language
Full fathom five thy father lies ( from The Tempest by Shakespeare )
Hope springs eternal in the human breast ( from a
poem
by Alexander Pope )
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ( from a
poem
by Browning )
Human kind cannot bear very much reality ( from a
poem
by Eliot )
I am the master of my fate ( from a
poem
by Henley )
I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled ( from a
poem
by Eliot )
I think that I shall never see a
poem
lovely as a tree, Kilmer )
I wandered lonely as a cloud ( from a
poem
by Wordsworth )
If music be the food of love, play on ( from Twelth Night by Shakespeare )
If you can keep your head when all about you ( from a
poem
by Kipling )
In Flanders fields the poppies blow ( from a
poem
by McCrae )
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan ( from a
poem
by Coleridge )
Joined up
writing
Language
barrier
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair ( from a
poem
by Shelley )
Mind your
language
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ( from a
poem
by Shakespeare )
Not with a bang but a whimper ( from a
poem
by Eliot )
O Romeo, Romeo; wherefore art thou Romeo ( from the play by Shakespeare )
Poetry In Motion ( Johnny Tillotson song )
Pulp
Fiction
( Quentin Tarantino movie )
Put in
writing
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness ( from a
poem
by Keats )
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? ( from a
poem
by Shakespeare )
Speak the same
language
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone ( from a
poem
by Auden )
Stranger than
fiction
The
Poet
( Nickname of Etan Thomas )
The Road Not Taken ( Robert Frost
poem
)
The child is father of the man ( from a
poem
by Wordsworth )
The lady doth protest too much, methinks ( from Hamlet by Shakespeare )
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n ( from a
poem
by Milton )
The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on ( from a
poem
by Fitzgerald )
The old lie: Dulce et Decorum Est ( from a
poem
by Owen )
The proper study of mankind is man ( from a
poem
by Alexander Pope )
The quality of mercy is not strained ( from The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare )
The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things, Carroll )
The
writing
is on the wall
They also serve who only stand and wait ( from a
poem
by Milton )
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold ( from a
poem
by Yeats )
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all ( from a
poem
by Tennyson )
To be or not to be: that is the question ( from a Hamlet by Shakespeare )
To err is human; to forgive, divine ( from a
poem
by Alexander Pope )
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield ( from a
poem
by Tennyson )
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams ( from a
poem
by Yeats )
Truth is stranger than
fiction
Watch your
language
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ( from Henry V by Shakespeare )
What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare ( from a
poem
by Davies )
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple ( from a
poem
by Joseph )
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes ( from a sonnet by Shakespeare )