Category: poet
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
Lord Byron
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Victor Hugo
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Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.
Victor Hugo
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The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
Lord Byron
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
Lord Byron
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou
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It’s such a Bore Being always Poor.
Langston Hughes
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Time is flying never to return.
Virgil