Category: poet
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.
Alexander Pope
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I’ve read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of ‘You Can’t Go Home Again’ and ‘Look Homeward, Angel.’
Maya Angelou
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Who can blind lover’s eyes?
Virgil
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What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.
Maya Angelou
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It’s so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I’ve never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.
Maya Angelou
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Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron
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I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
William Blake
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.