Category: poet
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We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother’s shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Some critics will write ‘ is a natural writer’ – which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
Maya Angelou
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman
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I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
William Blake
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
Lord Byron
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He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
Virgil
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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about.
Mary Oliver
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one’s personal project.
Yusef Komunyakaa