Category: poet
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The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.
William Blake
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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert Frost
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Victor Hugo
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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser’s passion, not the thief s.
William Blake
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Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.
Maya Angelou
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One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.
Langston Hughes
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
George Herbert
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
Victor Hugo
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Alexander Pope