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"Life needs a constant change, minds needs the constant change, only thing that is permanent in the world is change."

"Life needs a constant change, minds needs the constant change, only thing that is permanent in the world is change."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Transformation, Change, Life, Mind, World

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"Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?"

"Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?"

Alfred de Vigny, French Poet

Evil, Example, Facts, Memory

22

"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."

"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."

Oliver Goldsmith, Irish Poet

22

"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image."

"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

22

"Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue."

"Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue."

Ben Jonson, English Poet

22

"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."

"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Fool, Fools, Reason, Will

22

"I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!"

"I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!"

William Blake, English Poet

22

"Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out."

"Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out."

Robert Herrick, British Poet

Doubt, End, Nothing, Will

22

"I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own."

"I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own."

Arthur Rimbaud, French Poet

Blame, Misfortune, Parents

22

"Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt."

"Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt."

Marianne Moore, American Poet

Doubt, Nothing, Psychology

22

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."

Dante Alighieri, Italian Poet

Happiness, Misery, Sorrow

22

"Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person."

"Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person."

Virgil, Roman Poet

22

"Your friend is your needs answered."

"Your friend is your needs answered."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

Friendship, Friend, Needs, Poet, Khalil Gibran

22

"Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity."

"Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity."

Thomas Moore, Irish Poet

Heaven, Sea, Ships

22

"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."

"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."

John Keats, English Poet

Emotional, Temper, Water

22

"Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry."

"Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry."

Muriel Rukeyser, American Poet

Poetry, Experience

22

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

William Blake, English Poet

Wisdom, Excess, Road

22

"The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas."

"The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas."

Alfred Noyes, English Poet

22

"Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."

"Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."

John Dryden, English Poet

Man, Today, Tomorrow

22

"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does."

"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

Memory, Night, Solitude, Thinking

22

"Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others."

"Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Self-Care, Power, Inspirational, Truth, Wisdom

22

"Every person born into this world their work is born with them."

"Every person born into this world their work is born with them."

James Russell Lowell, American Poet

22

"Beauty is first and foremost an emotion."

"Beauty is first and foremost an emotion."

Tahar Ben Jelloun, French Poet

Beauty, Emotion, First

22

"Atheism is the last word of theism."

"Atheism is the last word of theism."

Heinrich Heine, German Poet

Religion, Atheism, Word

22

"When you're doing wrong, you're gonna think wrong."

"When you're doing wrong, you're gonna think wrong."

John Armstrong, American Poet

22

"Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?"

"Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?"

James Beattie, British Poet

22

"Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco."

"Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco."

Ben Jonson, English Poet

22

"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman Poet

Friendship, Soul

22

"It's okay to be absurd, ridiculous, and downright irrational at times; silliness is sweet syrup that helps us swallow the bitter pills of life."

"It's okay to be absurd, ridiculous, and downright irrational at times; silliness is sweet syrup that helps us swallow the bitter pills of life."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Absurdity, Happiness, Truth, Inspirational, Wisdom

22

"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."

"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

Work, Language, Slang

22

"Act well your part, there all the honour lies."

"Act well your part, there all the honour lies."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Integrity, Act, Lies

22

"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."

"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."

Ezra Pound, American Poet

Art, Sincerity, Value, Worth

22

"Say I Am YouI am dust particles in sunlight.I am the round sun.To the bits of dust I say, Stay.To the sun, Keep moving.I am morning mist, and the breathing of evening.I am wind in the top of a grove, and surf on the cliff.Mast, rudder, helmsman, and keel,I am also the coral reef they founder on.I am a tree with a trained parrot in its branches.Silence, thought, and voice.The musical air coming through a flute,a spark of a stone, a flickering in metal.Both candle and the moth crazy around it.Rose, and the nightingale lost in the fragrance.I am all orders of being, the circling galaxy,the evolutionary intelligence, the lift,and the falling away. What is, and what isn't.You who know Jelaluddin, You the one in all,say who I am. Say I am You."

"Say I Am YouI am dust particles in sunlight.I am the round sun.To the bits of dust I say, Stay.To the sun, Keep moving.I am morning mist, and the breathing of evening.I am wind in the top of a grove, and surf on the cliff.Mast, rudder, helmsman, and keel,I am also the coral reef they founder on.I am a tree with a trained parrot in its branches.Silence, thought, and voice.The musical air coming through a flute,a spark of a stone, a flickering in metal.Both candle and the moth crazy around it.Rose, and the nightingale lost in the fragrance.I am all orders of being, the circling galaxy,the evolutionary intelligence, the lift,and the falling away. What is, and what isn't.You who know Jelaluddin, You the one in all,say who I am. Say I am You."

Rumi, Persian Poet

Identity, Existence, Universe, Truth

22

"Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers."

"Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers."

May Sarton, American Poet

Darkness, Flowers, Help, Light

22

"I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry."

"I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry."

Randall Jarrell, American Poet

Poetry, Culture, Intellectuals

22

"Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker."

"Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker."

Ogden Nash, American Poet

22

"Literature is news that stays news."

"Literature is news that stays news."

Ezra Pound, American Poet

Literature, News

22

"Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things."

"Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things."

Algernon Charles Swinburne, English Poet

22

"Colors are light's suffering and joy."

"Colors are light's suffering and joy."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Relationship, Danger, Caution, Love, Trust

22

"Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances."

"Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances."

Virgil, Roman Poet

Circumstance, Circumstances

22

"Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad."

"Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad."

Euripides, Greek Poet

God, First, Wishes

22

"Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ."

"Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ."

Heinrich Heine, German Poet

Christian, Christ, Now

22

"Everyone's quick to blame the alien."

"Everyone's quick to blame the alien."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

22

"Honor is but an empty bubble."

"Honor is but an empty bubble."

John Dryden, English Poet

22

"For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth."

"For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth."

Countee Cullen, American Poet

22

"Imitation cannot go above its model."

"Imitation cannot go above its model."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Imitation, Limit

22

"The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot."

"The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot."

Anne Sexton, American Poet

Sex, Feeling, Saying, Writing

22

"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

22

"Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray."

"Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray."

William Cowper, English Poet

Instinct, Man, Mistakes

22

"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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