Category: poet
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In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.
Maya Angelou
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
John Keats
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
Horace
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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
Horace
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Lord Byron
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
Victor Hugo
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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
George Herbert
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I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.
Mary Oliver