Category: poet
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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Robert Frost
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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains.
Walt Whitman
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I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.
Emily Dickinson
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
William Butler Yeats
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
Lord Byron
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Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Horace
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They are able because they think they are able.
Virgil