Category: poet
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There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you’re working a few hours a day and you’ve got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you’re okay.
Mary Oliver
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The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.
Maya Angelou
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
Victor Hugo
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Passion and strife bow down the mind.
Virgil
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
William Butler Yeats
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I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.
Maya Angelou
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Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their ‘white’ culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.
Langston Hughes
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.