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Better to smile on all that smile, and show
There is a comfortable kind of old scarecrow.
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet. Among School Children (l. 31-32). . .
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989) Macmillan.)
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Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.
(Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French semiologist. "Astral America," America (1986, trans. 1988).)
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You're the smile
On the Mona Lisa.
(Cole Porter (1893-1964), U.S. songwriter. "You're the Top," Anything Goes, Harms, Inc. (1934).
Music composed by Jerome Kern (1885-1945).)
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Profundity must smile.
(Thomas Mann (1875-1955), German author, critic. Originally published as Lotte in Weimar, Fischer (1939). The Beloved Returns, ch. 7, p. 309, trans. by Helen T. Lowe-Porter, Knopf (1940).)
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(dreaming,
et
cetera, of
Your smile
eyes knees and of your Etcetera)
(E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894-1962), U.S. poet. My Sweet Old Etcetera (l. 21-25). . .
Complete Poems, 1904-1962 [E. E. Cummings]. George J. Firmage, ed. (1991) Liveright.)
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What's the use of worrying?
It never was worth while,
So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile.
(George Asaf (1880-1951), British songwriter. Pack up your Troubles (song) (1915).)
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... and fierce in each disk
of coarse yellow the archaic
smile, almost
agony, almost
a boy's grin.
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "For Floss.")
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Loose now and then
A scattered smile, and that I'll live upon.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Silvius, in As You Like It, act 3, sc. 5, l. 103-4.
Infatuated with Phebe.)
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