Category: poet
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California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
D. H. Lawrence
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Emily Dickinson
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Victor Hugo
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Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
William Wordsworth
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I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, ‘I write for money.’ Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.
Maya Angelou
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They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
Emily Dickinson
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Having achieved and accomplished love… man… has become himself, his tale is told.
D. H. Lawrence
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
Maya Angelou