Category: poet
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I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‘mother wit’ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.
Maya Angelou
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It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo
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I’ve conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! ! I’ve sang and danced at La Scala!
Maya Angelou
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
T. S. Eliot
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I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
Lord Byron
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A sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Emily Dickinson
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I always feel that whatever isn’t necessary shouldn’t be in a poem.
Mary Oliver
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
Lord Byron