Category: poet
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To be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost
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Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.
Maya Angelou
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I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.
Mary Oliver
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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement.
Horace
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Pale Death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings.
Horace
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The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
George Herbert
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I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.
Robert Frost
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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
Walter Scott
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What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
Robert Browning
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I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.
Mary Oliver