Category: poet
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I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
D. H. Lawrence
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
T. S. Eliot
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope
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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
Maya Angelou
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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It wasn’t a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing – and loving. Language became an addiction.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
D. H. Lawrence
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Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!
Emily Dickinson
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo
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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
Langston Hughes