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Quotes by Poet
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to 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."
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"A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation."
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"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."
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"While practicing mindfulness, don't be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself."
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"Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness."
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"Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural."
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"Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?"
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"Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought."
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"...and when we die we die alone I cry, I cry aloneLike a piece of stone I am thrown into the wavy ocean of lifeto atone...to atoneOnly to atone..."
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"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."
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"Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers."
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"Dream is an expensive ornament to adorn your hope."
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"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."
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"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."
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"But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found."
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"The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person."
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"Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed."
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"Intelligence is naked without wisdom. Wisdom dresses interestingly with intelligence."
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"Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?"
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"Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses."
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"Let us play hide and seek in a mountain which is like a women's back."
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"I don't care if people say that I am staying hungry and foolish."
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"It is in your hands to make life miserable or happy. No religion, spiritual leaders or knowledge will ever make you fully satisfied."
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"A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being."
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"Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into."
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"Patriotism is merely deeply-rooted government brand loyalty."
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"Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a "map" for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project."
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"As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs."
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