Category: poet
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What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
William Blake
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
William Butler Yeats
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When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.
Maya Angelou
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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
D. H. Lawrence
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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
William Butler Yeats
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
Walt Whitman
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
D. H. Lawrence
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What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
Virgil
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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
Victor Hugo