Category: poet
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I strive to be brief but I become obscure.
Horace
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Alexander Pope
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He enters the port with a full sail.
Virgil
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can’t aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Lord Byron
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.
Maya Angelou
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Poetry isn’t a profession, it’s a way of life. It’s an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
Mary Oliver
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
William Blake