Category: poet
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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
Victor Hugo
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman
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The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.
Mary Oliver
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
William Butler Yeats
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
D. H. Lawrence
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Alexander Pope
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God is the perfect poet.
Robert Browning
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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
William Blake
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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Walter Scott
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope