Category: poet
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I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
John Keats
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The offender never pardons.
George Herbert
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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
Lord Byron
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters – not to talk in armies and nations and numbers – but to track it home.
D. H. Lawrence
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‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats
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Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
George Herbert
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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
Horace
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I’m religiously opposed to religion.
Victor Hugo
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My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter – so was my father – and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn’t work against himself.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
Victor Hugo