"Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance."

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Source : 1965 Bygones.

Louis Untermeyer

#Spring Quotes #Vowels Quotes #Soil Quotes

“A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer...”
“I couldn't be more blessed.”
“If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you don't get seated next to at a dinner party.”

Source : "My Dinner Party Nightmare" by Ellen Malcolm, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2008.
“God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.”
“Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.”
“Whenever a natural disaster occurs, it is always the Red Cross that responds quickly and compassionately. I am honored to lend my voice to their cause, and thrilled to serve on the Celebrity Cabinet for 2010.”
“Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.”
“Every one's abilities may be increased or strengthened by a kind of culture.”

Source : Jacob Abbott (1835). “The Young Christian: Or, a Familiar Illustration of the Principles of Christian Duty”, p.303

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