Category: poet
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Alexander Pope
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don’t always succeed.
Victor Hugo
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Only in a novel are all things given full play.
D. H. Lawrence
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‘Tis pleasant, sure, to see one’s name in print. A book’s a book, although there’s nothing in ‘t.
Lord Byron
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The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
D. H. Lawrence
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Never was a miser a brave soul.
George Herbert
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Authority forgets a dying king.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert Frost
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I think it better that in times like these a poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
William Butler Yeats
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Don’t you stay at home of evenings? Don’t you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.