Category: poet
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I accept reality and dare not question it.
Walt Whitman
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Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
Maya Angelou
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Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.
Mary Oliver
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It’s bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
D. H. Lawrence
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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
John Keats
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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art – or almost the only stuff.
D. H. Lawrence
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They can because they think they can.
Virgil
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
Emily Dickinson
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A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya Angelou