Vernon Scannell (1922–2007) British boxer and poet
A Proper Gentleman, 1977
Anybody Want to Take Me Home
29 (2005)
Vernon Scannell (1922–2007) British boxer and poet
A Proper Gentleman, 1977
“I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.”
Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist
“I am a tremendous optimist for someone who has grown up amid the twilight of American competence.”
Barrett Brown (1981) American journalist, essayist and satirist
Vanity Fair, "Why the Hacks Hate Michael Hastings" http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/06/why-the-hacks-hate-michael-hastings, 23 July 2010.
“I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
His Phoenix http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1510/, refrain <br class="br">The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
St. 25. <br class="br"> Morituri Salutamus http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19229 (1875) <br class="br">Source: The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Debate with Walter Mondale http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/102184b.htm (21 October 1984) <br class="br">1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) English writer and poet
The Song of Seventy.
A Thousand Lines (1846)
Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841) Russian writer, poet and painter
"No, it is not you I love so ardently..." (1841)
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