Category: poet
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Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
Virgil
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Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.
Maya Angelou
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We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
Maya Angelou
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You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace; think where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
Mary Oliver
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
Lord Byron
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
William Blake