Category: poet
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If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
Horace
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
Victor Hugo
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The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
Maya Angelou
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A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
Robert Browning
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Victor Hugo
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Alexander Pope
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I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
Maya Angelou
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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
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Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‘I’d like to write about that.’ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.
Maya Angelou
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The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
John Keats