Category: poet
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
William Blake
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Absence – that common cure of love.
Lord Byron
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Health consists with temperance alone.
Alexander Pope
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
D. H. Lawrence
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Be thrifty, but not covetous.
George Herbert
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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Alexander Pope
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Endure the present, and watch for better things.
Virgil
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But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.
Virgil
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Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‘That’s life.’
Maya Angelou