Category: poet
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
D. H. Lawrence
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Emily Dickinson
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
Walter Scott
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
Victor Hugo
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I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.
Emily Dickinson
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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
John Keats
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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
Emily Dickinson
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Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.
William Blake