Category: poet
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T. S. Eliot
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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace
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Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.
Maya Angelou
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I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists, we believe we can will action through language. If that’s the case, we have to take responsibility for what we say.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
Horace
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It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
Horace
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At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.
Maya Angelou
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
William Blake