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"Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!"

"Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!"

Torquato Tasso, Italian Poet

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"Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny."

"Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

Destiny, Night, Wind, Worry

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"A minute's success pays the failure of years."

"A minute's success pays the failure of years."

Robert Browning, English Poet

Success, Failure, Years

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"Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie."

"Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie."

George Herbert, British Poet

Lie, Roses, Spring

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"The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul."

"The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul."

Alfred Austin, English Poet

Nature, Soul, Heart, Body

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"We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself."

"We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Persuasion, Arguments, Man, Temper

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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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"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."

"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."

Cesare Pavese, Italian Poet

Love, Misery, Nothingness, Vulnerability

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"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."

"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Life, Love, Immortality

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"'Tis human actions paint the chart of time."

"'Tis human actions paint the chart of time."

James Montgomery, British Poet

8

"Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay."

"Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay."

William Cowper, English Poet

Positive, Men, Judgment

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"Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door."

"Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door."

Torquato Tasso, Italian Poet

Fortune, Italiian

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"Don't wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow may be too late. If we know how to live according to the insight of impermanence, we will not make many mistakes. We can be happy right now. We can love our beloved, care for her, and make her happy today. And we won't run toward the future, losing our life, which is available only in the present moment."

"Don't wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow may be too late. If we know how to live according to the insight of impermanence, we will not make many mistakes. We can be happy right now. We can love our beloved, care for her, and make her happy today. And we won't run toward the future, losing our life, which is available only in the present moment."

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Poet

Impermanence, Love, Life, Present

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"Time, the devourer of all things."

"Time, the devourer of all things."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once."

"One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Fight, Fighting, First, Man

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"The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope."

"The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope."

Wendell Berry, American Poet

Hope, Care, Earth, Responsibility

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"I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning."

"I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning."

A. R. Ammons, American Poet

Purpose, Man, Past, Reason

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"You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome."

"You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Effort, Truth, Inspirational, Wisdom, Power

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"A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake."

"A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

Birth, First, Man, May, Order

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"There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else."

"There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else."

Audre Lorde, American Poet

Family, Mother, Key, Want, Woman

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"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance."

"I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance."

e. e. cummings, American Poet

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"Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm."

"Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

8

"Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying."

"Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying."

Christian Furchtegott Gellert, German Poet

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"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Freedom, Illusion, Truth, Control

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"When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries."

"When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries."

Jean Ingelow, English Poet

Old, Sorrow, Sparrows

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"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."

"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."

John Milton, English Poet

Conscience, Liberty

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"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."

Khalil Gibran, Lebanese Poet

Resilience, Kindness, Silence, Teachers

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"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?"

"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, English Poet

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"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."

Charles Mackay, British Poet

Man, Men, Senses, Will

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"If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater."

"If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater."

Pam Brown, American Poet

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"Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession."

"Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Cooking, Murder, Profession

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"Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt."

"Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt."

Emma Lazarus, American Poet

Language, Nationality

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"Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself."

"Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Experience, Paradox

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"With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem."

"With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet

Poetry, Determination, Man

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"I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year."

"I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year."

Ishmael Reed, American Poet

Politics, Difficulty, Fact, Man

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"Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you."

"Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you."

Rumi, Persian Poet

Healing, Light, Hope, Wounds

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"I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon."

"I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon."

Amy Lowell, American Poet

Heart, Fire, Moon, Want

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"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"Let your love be the kindness to make a homeless person believe that a soul needs something more than just four walls and a ceiling."

"Let your love be the kindness to make a homeless person believe that a soul needs something more than just four walls and a ceiling."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Compassion, Love, Kindness, Hope

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"Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into."

"Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into."

Wallace Stevens, American Poet

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"War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always."

"War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

War, Chance, Man

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"Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this."

"Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions."

"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Age, Intentions, Inventions, Killing

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"Weep hard as much as you need, but do not let your tears pursue the sorrow for the rest of your life."

"Weep hard as much as you need, but do not let your tears pursue the sorrow for the rest of your life."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Grief, Tears, Sorrow, Healing, Emotion

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"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour."

"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour."

William Blake, English Poet

Literature, Eternity, Heaven, Infinity, World

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"Far away soul in a dreamy stateForgotten slumber seemingly latePure rhythmic love now rising higherUnclad passion our only attire."

"Far away soul in a dreamy stateForgotten slumber seemingly latePure rhythmic love now rising higherUnclad passion our only attire."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Passion, Soul, Love, Dream

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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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"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

Alfred Lord Tennyson, English Poet

Persistence, Yield

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"I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many white people have enjoyed, for which I desire to bless God, and pray that he may bless those who have given them to me."

"I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many white people have enjoyed, for which I desire to bless God, and pray that he may bless those who have given them to me."

Jupiter Hammon, American Poet

God, People, Desire, May

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