Category: poet
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Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
Horace
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Walter Scott
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Time flies never to be recalled.
Virgil
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Every sound alarms.
Virgil
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
William Butler Yeats
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo
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We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
Horace
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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
William Butler Yeats