Category: poet
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It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
Robert Browning
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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Robert Frost
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I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn’t think of it as a career. I didn’t even think of it as a profession… It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.
Mary Oliver
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Walter Scott
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats
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Every old poem is sacred.
Horace
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
Maya Angelou
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An intellectual hatred is the worst.
William Butler Yeats
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
Walt Whitman
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Rainer Maria Rilke