Category: poet
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Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.
Maya Angelou
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April is the cruellest month.
T. S. Eliot
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Walt Whitman
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Alexander Pope
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I like books that are fat and full.
Mary Oliver
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I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
Maya Angelou
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.
Maya Angelou
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn’t matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
Langston Hughes
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We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!
Maya Angelou