Category: poet
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost
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It’s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
T. S. Eliot
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot
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Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
Maya Angelou
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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
D. H. Lawrence
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Victor Hugo
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I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.
Mary Oliver
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Langston Hughes