Category: poet
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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
D. H. Lawrence
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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.
Lord Byron
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When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon – all served with black beans and rice. It’s festive but different.
Maya Angelou
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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
D. H. Lawrence
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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Victor Hugo
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Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people’s problems were worse than ours.
Langston Hughes
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
William Blake
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Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.
Maya Angelou
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The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
D. H. Lawrence