Category: poet
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Tragedy is like strong acid – it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
D. H. Lawrence
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
D. H. Lawrence
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.
Maya Angelou
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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Robert Frost
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In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.
Maya Angelou
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Order is heaven’s first law.
Alexander Pope
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I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
Maya Angelou