Category: poet
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson
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Instead of taking the reader by the hand and running him down the hill, I want to lead him into a house of many rooms, and leave him alone in each of them.
Mary Oliver
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
Victor Hugo
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For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
Lord Byron
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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Horace
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher’s cleaver.
Lord Byron
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman
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But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
William Wordsworth
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
Victor Hugo
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Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
Robert Browning