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"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child."

"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Character, Man, Manners, Simplicity, Wit

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"It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries."

"It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries."

John Masefield, English Poet

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"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble."

"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble."

Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman Poet

Patience, Trouble

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"The louder he talked of his honour the faster we counted our spoons."

"The louder he talked of his honour the faster we counted our spoons."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Morality, Honor, Talk, Trust, Speech

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"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow."

"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Death, Idea, Man, Right

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"I come like Water, and like Wind I go."

"I come like Water, and like Wind I go."

Edward Fitzgerald, English Poet

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"Trust one who has tried."

"Trust one who has tried."

Virgil, Roman Poet

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"I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight."

"I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Joy, Deep, Taste, Will

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"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."

"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

Faith, Heart, Thinking, Will

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"To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

"To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Change, End, Beginning, Cycle

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"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."

"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

Faith, Brother, Doubt, Lonely

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"Those who build beneath the stars build too low."

"Those who build beneath the stars build too low."

Edward Young, English Poet

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"What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?"

"What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?"

Virgil, Roman Poet

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"Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place."

"Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"I love to doubt as well as know."

"I love to doubt as well as know."

Dante Alighieri, Italian Poet

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"You are an ocean in a drop of dew,all the universes in a thin sack of blood.What are these pleasures then,these joys, these worldsthat you keep reaching for,hoping they will make you more alive?"

"You are an ocean in a drop of dew,all the universes in a thin sack of blood.What are these pleasures then,these joys, these worldsthat you keep reaching for,hoping they will make you more alive?"

Rumi, Persian Poet

Existence, Universe, Life, Pleasure, Joy

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"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

Poetry, Dance, Echo, Shadow

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"Time is flying never to return."

"Time is flying never to return."

Virgil, Roman Poet

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"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."

Homer, Greek Poet

Time, Sleep, Words

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"How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry."

"How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry."

Allen Tate, American Poet

Poetry, Question

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"Witches cackle.Goblins growl.Spectres boo,And werewolves howl.Black cats hiss.Bats flap their wings.Mummies moan.The cold wind sings.Ogre's roar.And crows, they caw.Vampires bahahahaha.Warlocks swish their moonlit capes.Loch Ness monsters churn the lake.Skeletons, they rattle bonesWhile graveyards crack the old headstones.All the while the ghouls, they cryTo trick-or-treaters passing by.Oh, the noise on Halloween;It makes me want to scream!"

"Witches cackle.Goblins growl.Spectres boo,And werewolves howl.Black cats hiss.Bats flap their wings.Mummies moan.The cold wind sings.Ogre's roar.And crows, they caw.Vampires bahahahaha.Warlocks swish their moonlit capes.Loch Ness monsters churn the lake.Skeletons, they rattle bonesWhile graveyards crack the old headstones.All the while the ghouls, they cryTo trick-or-treaters passing by.Oh, the noise on Halloween;It makes me want to scream!"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Celebration, Halloween, Truth, Imagination, Fun

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"Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon."

"Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there."

"Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there."

Archibald MacLeish, American Poet

Poetry, Journalism, Man, Wishes

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"What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find."

"What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find."

Andre Breton, French Poet

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"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."

"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."

Norman MacCaig, Scottish Poet

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"Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young."

"Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young."

John Greenleaf Whittier, American Poet

Romantic, Romance, Tradition

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"They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve."

"They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

Vision, Poet, Khalil Gibran

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"A promise made is a debt unpaid."

"A promise made is a debt unpaid."

Robert Service, Scottish Poet

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"In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep."

"In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep."

Robert Herrick, British Poet

Kings, Moderation, Sheep, Skin

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"Door: What a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."

"Door: What a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."

Ogden Nash, American Poet

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"I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors."

"I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

Writing, Brooks, Editors, Letters, Poems

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"There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love."

"There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love."

Barry Cornwall, English Poet

Love, Moon, Name, Wind

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"Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them."

"Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them."

Ogden Nash, American Poet

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"May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children."

"May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Flow, Nature, Life, Children

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"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."

"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."

William Wordsworth, English Poet

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"Beauty is a fragile gift."

"Beauty is a fragile gift."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought."

"How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Life, Thought, Heart

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"Repentance is but want of power to sin."

"Repentance is but want of power to sin."

John Dryden, English Poet

Power, Repentance, Sin, Want

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"My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery."

"My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery."

John Cleveland, English Poet

Cause, Laws, Misery, Tears

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"Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts."

"Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts."

Ezra Pound, American Poet

Humanity, Waste

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"Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes."

"Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes."

Euripides, Greek Poet

Family, Happiness, Children, Life

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"Of course God will forgive me; that's His job."

"Of course God will forgive me; that's His job."

Heinrich Heine, German Poet

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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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"'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do."

"'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do."

Robert Browning Hamilton, American Poet

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"Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward."

"Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Man, Men, Deed, Reward, Value

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"Freedom is the only law which genius knows."

"Freedom is the only law which genius knows."

James Russell Lowell, American Poet

Genius, Freedom, Law

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"Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised."

"Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised."

Ben Jonson, English Poet

Success, Accuracy, Confidence, Reputation

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"I will say nothing against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have not had four weeks of genuine well-being. It is but the perpetual rolling of a rock that must be raised up again forever."

"I will say nothing against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have not had four weeks of genuine well-being. It is but the perpetual rolling of a rock that must be raised up again forever."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Suffering, Pain, Life, Existence, Burden

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"Poetry: the best words in the best order."

"Poetry: the best words in the best order."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

Poetry, Order, Words

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"Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those."

"Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Love, Affection, Desire, Mind

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