Category: poet
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Forever is composed of nows.
Emily Dickinson
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If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.
Mary Oliver
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The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
Maya Angelou
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo
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I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
Maya Angelou
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn’t got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.
Maya Angelou
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Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Horace
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
William Wordsworth