Category: poet
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Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.
Maya Angelou
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Shakespeare – I was very influenced – still am – by Shakespeare. I couldn’t believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.
Maya Angelou
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It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.
Maya Angelou
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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
Lord Byron
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Alexander Pope
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I am a part of all that I have met.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Though sages may pour out their wisdom’s treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Lord Byron
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I am in love – and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
D. H. Lawrence
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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
George Herbert