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A country depends on the heart of men: it is minuscule if the heart is small, and immense if the heart is great.
(Simone Schwarz-Bart (b. 1938), Gaudeloupean author. The Bridge of Beyond, p. 11, Éditions du Seuil (1972).)
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The heart
the heart
the heart
how it thrives on hate.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Electra-Orestes.")
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The last time I saw Paris
Her heart was warm and gay,
I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.
(Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960), U.S. songwriter. The Last Time I Saw Paris (song), Lady Be Good (film, 1941).
Hammerstein's last major collaboration with Jerome Kern was inspired by news of the German occupation of Paris, and won an Oscar. The movie bears no relation to the stage musical scored by Gershwin in 1924.)
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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
(Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Indian Journals, entry for September 6, 1962 (1970).
Written in Calcutta.)
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He hath a heart as sound as a bell and his tongue is the clapper, for what his heart thinks, his tongue speaks.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Don Pedro, in Much Ado About Nothing, act 3, sc. 2, l. 12-14.
Praising Benedick.)
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Now that I have your heart by heart, I see.
(Louise Bogan (1897-1970), U.S. poet, critic. Song for the Last Act (l. 27). . .
The Blue Estuaries; Poems 1923-1968 [Louise Bogan]. (1968; repr. 1988) Ecco Press.)
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Mine eye's due is thine outward part,
And my heart's right thine inward love of heart.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British poet. Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war (l. 13-14).
EyDe. The Unabridged William Shakespeare, William George Clark and William Aldis Wright, eds. (1989) Running Press.)
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... the heart monitor,
the death cricket bleeping.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Twelve Dancing Princesses.")
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Batter my heart, three-personed God;
(John Donne (1572-1631), British poet. Batter my heart three-personed God (Holy Sonnets). . .
The Complete English Poems [John Donne]. A. J. Smith, ed. (1971) Penguin Books.)
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A light heart lives long.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Katherine, in Love's Labor's Lost, act 5, sc. 2, l. 18.
"Light" = merry, but could also mean unchaste.)
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