Category: poet
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I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
Mary Oliver
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So long as you don’t feel life’s paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn’t matter, happiness or unhappiness.
D. H. Lawrence
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My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It’s early work, derivative work.
Mary Oliver
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Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
Mary Oliver
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When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
D. H. Lawrence
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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood – sex and the dead.
William Butler Yeats
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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
Lord Byron
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Romances I ne’er read like those I have seen.
Lord Byron
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Don’t be on the side of the angels, it’s too lowering.
D. H. Lawrence