Category: poet
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Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules.
Mary Oliver
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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
William Blake
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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
Horace
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
Walt Whitman
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
Walt Whitman