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Quote DB :: Authors :: Oliver Wendell Holmes :: View Quote View Quote "Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have: Cincinnati sounds worse." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Oliver Wendell Holmes Listed in: Poetry Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 0  Rate Quote 0 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes "The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." "If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate." "Old age is fifteen years older than I am." "When in doubt, do it." "The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power." Top 5 quotes from Poetry "Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves." "A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness." "I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering." "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." "The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."

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