Category: poet
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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
Victor Hugo
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Victor Hugo
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
William Wordsworth
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That’s an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there’s a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it’s not what we know, it’s what we can risk discovering.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven’t really got.
D. H. Lawrence