Category: poet
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
William Butler Yeats
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‘Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.’
Maya Angelou
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What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
Virgil
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou
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It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.
Maya Angelou
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.
Maya Angelou