Category: poet
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Life is half spent before we know what it is.
George Herbert
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
T. S. Eliot
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
Emily Dickinson
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Victor Hugo
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The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
Maya Angelou
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The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
William Wordsworth
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In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
Langston Hughes
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We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Horace