Category: poet
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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
William Butler Yeats
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
D. H. Lawrence
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I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‘I’m a Christian.’ I always think, ‘Already? You’ve already got it?’ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.
Maya Angelou
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Victor Hugo
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There is no method but to be very intelligent.
T. S. Eliot
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Who loves, raves.
Lord Byron
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We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.
Emily Dickinson
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If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.
Maya Angelou
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To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.
Mary Oliver
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow