Category: poet
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope
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There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
Walter Scott
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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats
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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
William Blake
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Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
Robert Frost
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I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool – and I’m not any of those – to say that I don’t write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.
Maya Angelou
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope
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I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
Maya Angelou
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
D. H. Lawrence
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Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo