Category: poet
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.
Maya Angelou
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Of course, there are those critics – New York critics as a rule – who say, ‘Well, has a new book out and of course it’s good but then she’s a natural writer.’ Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.
Maya Angelou
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
Lord Byron
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
Robert Frost
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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
William Blake
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I’ve always wanted to write poems and nothing else.
Mary Oliver
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When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
Mary Oliver