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"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Poetry, Emotion, Emotions, Expression

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"The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing."

"The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing."

Leigh Hunt, English Poet

People, Famous, Nothing

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"There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich who want something more that of the sick who want something different and that of the traveler who says "Anywhere but here.""

"There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich who want something more that of the sick who want something different and that of the traveler who says "Anywhere but here.""

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Life, Want, Riches, Truth, Sickness

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"Venus favors the bold."

"Venus favors the bold."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Astrology, Favors

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"Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee."

"Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee."

Ben Jonson, English Poet

Language, Man, May

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"Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language."

"Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Language, Grammar, Life, Power

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"Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven."

"Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven."

Robert Browning Hamilton, American Poet

Art, God, Day, Earth

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$"Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten."$

"Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten."

Andre Breton, French Poet

Illusion, Learning

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"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."

"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Courage, Death, Fear

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"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect."

"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect."

Paul Valery, French Poet

Intellectual, Intellect, Present, Universe

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"The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower."

"The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower."

Audre Lorde, American Poet

Failure, Strength, Difference, First

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"The painful truth about life is not death but death while you are alive."

"The painful truth about life is not death but death while you are alive."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Life, Truth, Existence, Emptiness

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"Oh, to be in England now that April's there."

"Oh, to be in England now that April's there."

Robert Browning, English Poet

Nostalgia, April, England, Now

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"Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."

"Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."

John Milton, English Poet

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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose."

"Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose."

Eugenio Montale, Italian Poet

Literature, Prose, Today

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"We gain the strength of the temptation we resist."

"We gain the strength of the temptation we resist."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Strength, Gain, Temptation

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"I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after."

"I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after."

Wallace Stevens, American Poet

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"The only journey is the one within."

"The only journey is the one within."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right."

"The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right."

Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Poet

Minority, Majority, Right, Wrong

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"Rejection is merely a redirection, a course correction to your destiny."

"Rejection is merely a redirection, a course correction to your destiny."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Destiny, Rejection, Truth, Life

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"Poetry and prayer are very similar."

"Poetry and prayer are very similar."

Carol Ann Duffy, British Poet

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"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."

"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

Poetry, Quarrel, Rhetoric

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"Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves."

"Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Nature, Fault, Punishment

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"The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books."

"The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books."

Stephane Mallarme, French Poet

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"Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too."

"Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too."

Edward Fitzgerald, English Poet

Travel, Darkness, Road

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"Time flies never to be recalled."

"Time flies never to be recalled."

Virgil, Roman Poet

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"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."

"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Writing, Truth, Fiction, Reality

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"Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground."

"Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground."

Dante Alighieri, Italian Poet

Perspective, Eyes, Heaven

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"When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you."

"When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

Love, May, Yield, Poet

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"The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone."

"The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone."

Lucretius, Roman Poet

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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Identity, Accomplishment, Trying, World

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"Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help."

"Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help."

Thom Gunn, British Poet

Poetry, Deep, Feeling, Help

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"What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars."

"What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars."

William Wordsworth, English Poet

Attitude, Pride, Stars

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"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."

"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."

Ezra Pound, American Poet

Language, Literature, Meaning

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"To bear is to conquer our fate."

"To bear is to conquer our fate."

Thomas Campbell, Scottish Poet

26

"In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all."

"In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all."

Wallace Stevens, American Poet

Love, Poetry, Ideas, Words

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"Caesar's wife should be above suspicion."

"Caesar's wife should be above suspicion."

John Langhorne, English Poet

Wife, Suspicion

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"The world only goes round by misunderstanding."

"The world only goes round by misunderstanding."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim."

"Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Change, Men, Peace, Awareness

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"As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom."

"As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Weather, Nature, Truth, Life, Wisdom

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"Endure the present, and watch for better things."

"Endure the present, and watch for better things."

Virgil, Roman Poet

26

"What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists."

"What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists."

Archibald MacLeish, American Poet

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"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."

"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."

Don Marquis, American Poet

26

"There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired."

"There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired."

Edward Young, English Poet

Poetry, Logic, Mystery, Prose

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"Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought."

"Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Love, Marriage, Perfection, Ignorance

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"He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below."

"He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below."

Lord Byron, British Poet

26

"One error, in fact, of eccentricity in poetry is to seek for new human emotions to express; and in this search for novelty in the wrong place it discovers the perverse. The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all."

"One error, in fact, of eccentricity in poetry is to seek for new human emotions to express; and in this search for novelty in the wrong place it discovers the perverse. The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Art, Poetry, Emotion, Novelty, Expression

25

"I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone."

"I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Solitude, Appetite, Being

25

"There's nothing wicked in Shakespeare, and if there is I don't want to know it."

"There's nothing wicked in Shakespeare, and if there is I don't want to know it."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Interpretation, Literature, Morality, Innocence, Perception

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