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My mouth blooms like a cut.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Kiss.")
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Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
(Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936), U.S. journalist, humorist. "Casual Observations," Mr. Dooley's Philosophy (1900).)
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Cut grass lies frail:
Brief is the breath
Mown stalks exhale,
(Philip Larkin (1922-1985), British poet. Cut Grass (l. 1-3). . .
Collected Poems of Philip Larkin. Anthony Thwaite, ed. (1988) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.)
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Thrust ivrybody, but cut th' ca-ards.
(Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936), U.S. journalist, humorist. Dooley's Philosophy, "Casual Observations," (1900).)
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Certain branches cut
certain leaves fallen
the grapes
cooked and put up
for winter
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "October.")
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Sex is a short cut to everything.
(Anne Cumming (b. 1917), British author. The Love Quest, ch. 1 (1991).
Opening line of her autobiography.)
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I wear my wedding ring
He will cut off your finger
And the blood will linger
Little bird!
(Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "The Robber Bridegroom.")
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Cut the pie any way you like, "meanings" just ain't in the head!
(Hilary Putnam (b. 1926), U.S. professor of philosophy; worked mainly at Harvard. Cambridge University Press (1975). "The Meaning of 'Meaning'," Mind (Language and Reality), p. 227.)
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It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world—it's the American way of looking at things.
(Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. "Letter to Lafayette," The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945).)
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What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 54, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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