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"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity."

"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity."

John Milton, English Poet

Death, Eternity, Key

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"Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment."

"Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment."

Ben Jonson, English Poet

Delight, Mind, Punishment, Vice

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"From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea."

"From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea."

Algernon Charles Swinburne, English Poet

Life, Love, Men, Fear

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"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."

"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."

William Blake, English Poet

Delight, Energy

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"Authority forgets a dying king."

"Authority forgets a dying king."

Alfred Lord Tennyson, English Poet

Authority, Dying

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"A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant."

"A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant."

William Congreve, English Poet

Sincerity, Wit, Woman

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"How can we know the dancer from the dance?"

"How can we know the dancer from the dance?"

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

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"If life is worth living for so is it worth dying."

"If life is worth living for so is it worth dying."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Mortality, Life, Death, Values, Worth

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"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

William Congreve, English Poet

Love, Hatred, Heaven, Hell

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"It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot."

"It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot."

Ted Hughes, English Poet

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"And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns."

"And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns."

Thomas Moore, Irish Poet

Heart, First, Flowers

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"The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places."

"The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Self-Praise, Right

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"It will not always be summer; build barns."

"It will not always be summer; build barns."

Hesiod, Greek Poet

Preparation, Summer, Will

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"There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know."

"There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know."

John Dryden, English Poet

Being, Pleasure

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"I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure."

"I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure."

Allen Tate, American Poet

Change, Music, Key, Measure

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"In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence."

"In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence."

Herbert Read, English Poet

Unity, Evolution, Mankind

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"Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go."

"Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go."

Richard Howard, American Poet

Help, Respect, Teachers

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"I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence."

"I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence."

Thomas Hood, English Poet

Autumn, Listening, Old, Silence

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"Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun."

"Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun."

Robert Herrick, British Poet

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"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

Education, Fire

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"An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it."

"An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it."

Don Marquis, American Poet

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"Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult."

"Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult."

John Masefield, English Poet

People, Tragedy

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"In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry."

"In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry."

Norman MacCaig, Scottish Poet

Poetry, People, Fact, First

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"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."

Diane Ackerman, American Poet

Life, End, Want

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"If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another."

"If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another."

Virgil, Roman Poet

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"I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level."

"I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level."

John Dyer, American Poet

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"I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence."

"I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence."

Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet

Family, Mother, Father, World

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"Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?"

"Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?"

Stanislaw Lec, Polish Poet

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"I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects."

"I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects."

Emma Lazarus, American Poet

People, Community, Contempt, Fact

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"Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven."

"Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven."

Francis Thompson, English Poet

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"The devout have laid out gardens in the desert."

"The devout have laid out gardens in the desert."

Robert Duncan, American Poet

Gardening, Gardens

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"It is a happy talent to know how to play."

"It is a happy talent to know how to play."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Joy, Talent, Play, Happiness

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"Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul."

"Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul."

John Dryden, English Poet

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"Art is pattern informed by sensibility."

"Art is pattern informed by sensibility."

Herbert Read, English Poet

Art, Sensibility

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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

History, Life, Enemies, Man

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"Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny."

"Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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"Nothing that is really good and God-like dies."

"Nothing that is really good and God-like dies."

Ernst Moritz Arndt, German Poet

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"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."

"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup."

"Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup."

Wendell Berry, American Poet

Argument, Dawn, Dew

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"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder."

"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Family, Brother, Crime, Man, Murder

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"Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected."

"Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

Art, Being, Modernity

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"Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember."

"Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember."

Virgil, Roman Poet

Personal, Day, Will

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"Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times."

"Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times."

Ben Jonson, English Poet

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"No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide."

"No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide."

Cesare Pavese, Italian Poet

Reason, Suicide

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"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price."

"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

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"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear."

"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear."

Ezra Pound, American Poet

Language, Writers

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"I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream."

"I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream."

Mark Strand, American Poet

Poetry, Purpose, America

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"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things."

"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things."

Ben Jonson, English Poet

Speech, Eloquence, Talking

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"She lit fire to the bridges and forts she built all these years, and she walked into it smiling and tears rolling down her cheeks."

"She lit fire to the bridges and forts she built all these years, and she walked into it smiling and tears rolling down her cheeks."

Akshay Vasu, Indian Poet

Growth, Courage, Loss, Resilience, Acceptance

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"It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out."

"It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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