Category: poet
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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost
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Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
Alexander Pope
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
D. H. Lawrence
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
Walt Whitman
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Alexander Pope
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Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
Virgil
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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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Never find fault with the absent.
Alexander Pope