Category: poet
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
Alexander Pope
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I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with ‘Porgy and Bess,’ the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.
Maya Angelou
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.
Maya Angelou
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Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
Virgil
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How can we know the dancer from the dance?
William Butler Yeats
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Walter Scott
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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning
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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
William Blake
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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John Keats