Category: poet
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Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
Robert Browning
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The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.
Maya Angelou
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I like children; I like ’em, and I respect ’em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron
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The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they’re full of bicycle trails.
Mary Oliver
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one’s passional changes.
D. H. Lawrence
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They can conquer who believe they can.
Virgil
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
D. H. Lawrence
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As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Virgil