Category: poet
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one’s soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
John Keats
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Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear.
Maya Angelou
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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Horace
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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
William Blake
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
Lord Byron
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
Lord Byron
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He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace
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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Walt Whitman