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"Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above."
Love

"A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round."
Beauty

"Stronger by weakness, wiser men become."
Man

"And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear."
Soul

"The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!"
Beauty

"How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!"
Time

"Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain."
Poor

"Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot."
Poet

"Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new."
Old

"Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be."
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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
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"Poets wish to profit or to please."
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"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."
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"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."
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"Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."
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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
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"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
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"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."
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"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
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"I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie."
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