Category: poet
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Emily Dickinson
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else – very rarely to those who say to themselves, ‘Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!’.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
Robert Browning
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. Eliot
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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert Frost
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
Victor Hugo
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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Horace
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The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
George Herbert
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.
Rainer Maria Rilke