Category: poet
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
Victor Hugo
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I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, ‘No. No, I’m finished. Bye.’ And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won’t do that.
Maya Angelou
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Victor Hugo
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Alexander Pope
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
Walt Whitman
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O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
Alfred Lord Tennyson