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Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
(Joseph Roux (1834-1886), French priest, writer. Meditations of a Parish Priest, pt. 1, no. 76 (1886).)
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We will have rings and things, and fine array,
And kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Petruchio, in The Taming of the Shrew, act 2, sc. 1, l. 323-4.
"Kiss me, Kate" is the title of a musical based on the play; "we will be married o' Sunday" occurs as a refrain in ballads.)
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Giant whispering and coughing from
Vast Sunday-full and organ-frowned-on spaces
Precede a sudden scuttle on the drum....
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Broadcast.")
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The Indian said a particularly long prayer this Sunday evening, as if to atone for working in the morning.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "The Allegash and East Branch" (1864) in The Maine Woods (1864), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 3, p. 229, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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Hugging old and Sunday sun.
Kissing in her kitchenette
The minuets of memory.
(Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), U.S. poet. "The Anniad.")
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After the brief bivouac of Sunday,
their eyes, in the forced march of Monday to Saturday,
hoist the white flag, flutter in the snow storm of paper,
(Patricia K. Page (b. 1916), Canadian poet. The Stenographers (l. 1-3). . .
Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English and French, The. A. J. M. Smith, ed. (1960) Oxford University Press.)
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The boredom of Sunday afternoon, which drove de Quincey to drink laudanum, also gave birth to surrealism: hours propitious for making bombs.
(Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), British critic. The Unquiet Grave, pt. 3 (1944, rev. 1951).)
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
(Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British essayist. Spectator (London, July 9, 1711), no. 112.)
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The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.
(Georg Büchner (1813-1837), German dramatist, revolutionary. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1994). The Hessian Messenger (1834).)
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that Sunday in July
when we were young and did not look
into the abyss,
that God spot.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Fury of Sundays.")
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