Category: poet
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Lord Byron
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I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.
Maya Angelou
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A library implies an act of faith.
Victor Hugo
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Lord Byron
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In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‘lays out a line.’ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.
Maya Angelou
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
Victor Hugo
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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Horace
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Victor Hugo
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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
William Butler Yeats