Category: poet
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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
Mary Oliver
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor Hugo
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
Victor Hugo
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily Dickinson
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
Walter Scott
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A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
William Butler Yeats
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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats
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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
George Herbert