Category: poet
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
Victor Hugo
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We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.
Maya Angelou
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At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that. I did not think that specific and personal perspective functioned well for the reader at all.
Mary Oliver
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Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
Virgil
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Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
Robert Browning
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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Victor Hugo