Category: poet
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I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost
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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
D. H. Lawrence
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
John Keats
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Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Maya Angelou
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I know that two and two make four – and should be glad to prove it too if I could – though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
Lord Byron
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I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‘Maya, , it’s time.’
Maya Angelou
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Woman’s at best a contradiction still.
Alexander Pope
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I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.
Maya Angelou
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If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.
Virgil