Category: poet
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Words have not only a definition… but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound.
Mary Oliver
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter Scott
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost
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Is there any pleasure in anger? Yes, if the fire of my anger appeases the ashes of my friends.
Virgil
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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
Horace
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There’s always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
D. H. Lawrence
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My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.
Langston Hughes
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There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
George Herbert