"Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top."

Poetry, Growingup, Now, Poets

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"Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top."

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"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."

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"Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction."

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"I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry and I think it's nicer' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed 'to look at it through poetry."

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"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."

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Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness."

Muriel Rukeyser, American Poet

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"My soul is wrapped in harsh repose,Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes,But soft... behold!A sunlight beamButting a swath of glimmering gleam.My heart expands,'tis grown a bulge in it,Inspired by your beauty...Effulgent."

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"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

Dream

"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."

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"If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise."

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"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."

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"Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die."

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"And say my glory was I had such friends."

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"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."

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"Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before."

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"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."

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"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions."

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