Category: poet
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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
Victor Hugo
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War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
George Herbert
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
D. H. Lawrence
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Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Victor Hugo
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At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‘That’s an American’ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.
Maya Angelou
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
Victor Hugo
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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.
Maya Angelou