Easiness Quotes - Page 2

• Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Shining, Dresses, Care

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• There's that confidence again, that semi-infuriating easiness of his, the tilt of his head and the smile. but today it's not infuriating. Today I like it, feel like it's somehow rubbing off on me, like if I was around him enough I would never feel awkward or frightened or insecure.

  Lauren Oliver

  Insecure, Awkward, Today

  "Delirium". Book by Lauren Oliver, January 1, 2011.

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• Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success
  We forget the easiness of free beauty
  Lying sad right around the corner,
  Only an instant removed,
  Unnoticed and squandered.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Lying, Busy, Forget

  "Serious Business". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant. He is tempted to say many things which might better be omitted, or, at least shut up in fewer words.

  John Dryden

  Imagination, Might, Shut Up

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.121

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