Category: poet
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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don’t want fancy work.
Mary Oliver
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There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
Virgil
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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
John Keats
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
Alexander Pope
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Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
Alexander Pope
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The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.
Maya Angelou
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I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
William Butler Yeats
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Alexander Pope
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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.