Category: poet
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When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.
Maya Angelou
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Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert Frost
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
Victor Hugo
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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
D. H. Lawrence
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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Horace
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson
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I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.
Maya Angelou
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
Victor Hugo
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I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
Maya Angelou