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"Do you feel that? It is a calm shift in the wind. Do you hear that? It is a soft whisper of hope. Do you see that? It is the divine hand of guidance, mercifully extended to aid our good fight."

"Do you feel that? It is a calm shift in the wind. Do you hear that? It is a soft whisper of hope. Do you see that? It is the divine hand of guidance, mercifully extended to aid our good fight."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Guidance, Hope, Truth, Life, Inspirational

15

"A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit."

"A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit."

John Milton, English Poet

15

"Fear is proof of a degenerate mind."

"Fear is proof of a degenerate mind."

Virgil, Roman Poet

Fear, Mind, Proof

15

"One smile has the power to...Calm fears.Soften stone walls.Warm a cold heart.Invite a new friend.Mimic a loving hug.Beautify the bearer.Lighten heavy loads.Promote good deeds.Brighten a gloomy day.Comfort a grieving spirit.Offer hope to the forlorn.Send a message of caring.Lift the downtrodden soul.Patch up invisible wounds.Weaken the hold of misery.Act as medicine for suffering.Attract the companionship of angels.Fulfill the human need for recognition.Who knew changing the world would prove so simple?"

"One smile has the power to...Calm fears.Soften stone walls.Warm a cold heart.Invite a new friend.Mimic a loving hug.Beautify the bearer.Lighten heavy loads.Promote good deeds.Brighten a gloomy day.Comfort a grieving spirit.Offer hope to the forlorn.Send a message of caring.Lift the downtrodden soul.Patch up invisible wounds.Weaken the hold of misery.Act as medicine for suffering.Attract the companionship of angels.Fulfill the human need for recognition.Who knew changing the world would prove so simple?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Kindness, Love, Happiness, Truth, Wisdom

15

"The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful."

"The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful."

Frederick Locker-Lampson, English Poet

Sin, Ugly, World

15

"The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him."

"The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him."

W. H. Davies, Welsh Poet

Gardening, Garden, Help

15

"Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent."

"Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent."

Horace Smith, English Poet

Man, Men, Inconsistency

15

"Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world."

"Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world."

Archibald MacLeish, American Poet

Poetry, Feelings, Events, Journalism

15

"Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name."

"Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

Inspirational, Time, First, Name, Yesterday

15

"I'm not here to grant you the extraordinary love you never had for yourself. I'm here, on my own accord, to love you. So that when you stare into my mirror eyes, you may see how extraordinary you are."

"I'm not here to grant you the extraordinary love you never had for yourself. I'm here, on my own accord, to love you. So that when you stare into my mirror eyes, you may see how extraordinary you are."

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

Self-Love, Love, Healing, Reflection

15

"Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic."

"Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic."

Cesare Pavese, Italian Poet

Life, Love, Enjoyment, Pain

15

"Life wants you to know yourself, be yourself and love yourself."

"Life wants you to know yourself, be yourself and love yourself."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Acceptance, Self, Love, Happiness, Truth

15

"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness."

"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness."

Petrarch, Italian Poet

Love, Life, Living, Madness

15

"The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength."

"The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength."

Robert Browning Hamilton, American Poet

Strength, Land, Sea

15

"How delightful to find a friend in everyone."

"How delightful to find a friend in everyone."

Joseph Brodsky, American Poet

Friendship, Friend

15

"The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves."

"The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves."

Herbert Read, English Poet

Being, Care, Sin, Spirit

15

"The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible."

"The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

15

"Came but for friendship, and took away love."

"Came but for friendship, and took away love."

Thomas Moore, Irish Poet

Friendship, Love

15

"There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers."

"There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers."

Gerald Massey, English Poet

Kindness, Blindness, Flowers, World

15

"The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born."

"The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born."

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American Poet

15

"It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers."

"It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet

15

"When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy."

"When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy."

Stanislaw Lec, Polish Poet

Preservation, Monuments

15

"Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me."

"Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me."

Sharon Olds, American Poet

Expression, Clarity, Spirits, Visions

15

"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together."

"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together."

Roger McGough, British Poet

Poet, Poets, Worth, Writers

15

"There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe."

"There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe."

Herman Gorter, Dutch Poet

Difference, Europe, Russia

15

"I strove with none; for none was worth my strife."

"I strove with none; for none was worth my strife."

Walter Savage Landor, English Poet

15

"Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have."

"Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have."

Carol Ann Duffy, British Poet

Personal, Day, Problems

15

"Saying 'I'm sorry' is saying 'I love you' with a wounded heart in one hand and your smothered pride in the other."

"Saying 'I'm sorry' is saying 'I love you' with a wounded heart in one hand and your smothered pride in the other."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Apology, Truth, Inspirational, Regret, Happiness

15

"Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music."

"Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music."

William Stafford, American Poet

15

"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make."

"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make."

James Weldon Johnson, American Poet

Despair, London, Man, Paris

15

"Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life."

"Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life."

Aristophanes, Greek Poet

Life, People, Laws

15

"Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made."

"Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made."

John Berryman, American Poet

15

"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself."

"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself."

Wallace Stevens, American Poet

15

"It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly."

"It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly."

Theophile Gautier, French Poet

15

"I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels."

"I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Tolerance, Patience, Truth, Regret, Power

15

"That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness."

"That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness."

Antonio Porchia, Italian Poet

Evil, Goodness, Man

15

"A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them."

"A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them."

Herbert Read, English Poet

Character, Ideals, Man, Personality

15

"I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing."

"I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing."

Francis Quarles, English Poet

Pleasure, Reading, Writing

15

"In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it."

"In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Nature, Connection

15

"By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing."

"By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing."

Don Marquis, American Poet

Time, Man, Will, Worth

15

"Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free."

"Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free."

Jupiter Hammon, American Poet

Power, Being, Hurt, Will

15

"If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn."

"If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn."

John Dryden, English Poet

15

"I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore."

"I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore."

David Antin, American Poet

Audience, Audiences, Want

15

"All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed."

"All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed."

Norman MacCaig, Scottish Poet

Poetry, Affection, Books, Fishing

15

"Colors are the smiles of nature."

"Colors are the smiles of nature."

Leigh Hunt, English Poet

Nature, Colors, Smiles

15

"I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods."

"I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods."

Georg Trakl, Austrian Poet

God, Silence, Spring

15

"A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one."

"A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one."

William Congreve, English Poet

15

"The Spring I seek is in a new face only."

"The Spring I seek is in a new face only."

Allen Tate, American Poet

15

"A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves."

"A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves."

John Millington Synge, Irish Poet

Isolation, Day, Nothing, Sense

15

"Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live."

"Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live."

John Milton, English Poet

Appreciation, Englforget, Nations, Teaching

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