Category: poet
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So, fall asleep love, loved by me… for I know love, I am loved by thee.
Robert Browning
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Autobiography is awfully seductive; it’s wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass – the slave narrative – speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying ‘I,’ meaning ‘we.’
Maya Angelou
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A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
George Herbert
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
Horace
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Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
Emily Dickinson
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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
George Herbert
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There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It’s duty.
Mary Oliver
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I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.
Maya Angelou
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I acknowledge my feeling and gratitude for life by praising the world and whoever made all these things.
Mary Oliver
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Victor Hugo