Category: poet
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Walt Whitman
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To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
Mary Oliver
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Make a good use of the present.
Horace
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The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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To love is to act.
Victor Hugo
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Victor Hugo
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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
Victor Hugo
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that’s broken!
Walter Scott
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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
D. H. Lawrence