Category: poet
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My parents didn’t care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing.
Mary Oliver
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Walt Whitman
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
Walter Scott
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
D. H. Lawrence
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
Walt Whitman
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I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.
Mary Oliver
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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
D. H. Lawrence
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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
Victor Hugo
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo