Category: poet
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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Robert Browning
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
Alexander Pope
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You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
Robert Browning
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The real war will never get in the books.
Walt Whitman
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
Lord Byron
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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.
Emily Dickinson