Category: poet
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Human beings love poetry. They don’t even know it sometimes… whether they’re the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber… they’re listening to poetry.
Maya Angelou
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The true artist doesn’t substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
D. H. Lawrence
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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
William Blake
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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one’s religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
D. H. Lawrence
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Passions are the gales of life.
Alexander Pope
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
Alexander Pope
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Lord Byron
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
Langston Hughes
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
Alexander Pope
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Walt Whitman