Category: poet
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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Robert Frost
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But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
William Butler Yeats
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor Hugo
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If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.
Alexander Pope
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Clogged with yesterday’s excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
Horace
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If I’ve done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.
Mary Oliver
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Wasn’t it Emerson who said, ‘My life is for itself and not for a spectacle’? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private.
Mary Oliver
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And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.
Maya Angelou
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If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
Horace