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"GOD is determined on you."

"GOD is determined on you."

TemitOpe Ibrahim, Nigerian Poet

Spiritual, Faith, Divinity, Determination, Life

15

"Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home."

"Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home."

Philip Levine, American Poet

Home, Poetry, Nothing, Now

15

"A cat will be your friend, but never your slave."

"A cat will be your friend, but never your slave."

Theophile Gautier, French Poet

Friendship, Friend, Will

15

"Time passes irrevocably."

"Time passes irrevocably."

Virgil, Roman Poet

15

"Be selfish and take good care of you first. When you are your best, you can best help others."

"Be selfish and take good care of you first. When you are your best, you can best help others."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Self-Care, Truth, Happiness, Inspirational, Wisdom

15

"Not without hope we suffer and we mourn."

"Not without hope we suffer and we mourn."

William Wordsworth, English Poet

15

"Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety."

"Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Success, Mother, Obedience, Safety

15

"Doing nothing accomplishes nothing, gains nothing, changes nothing, and wins nothing. You have to make a move."

"Doing nothing accomplishes nothing, gains nothing, changes nothing, and wins nothing. You have to make a move."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Initiative, Action, Power, Wisdom, Truth

15

"Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama."

"Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama."

Allen Tate, American Poet

Experience, Being, Conflict, Drama

15

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."

Henry Van Dyke, American Poet

Time, Love, Fear, Eternity

15

"God sendeth and giveth both mouth and meat."

"God sendeth and giveth both mouth and meat."

Thomas Tusser, English Poet

15

"Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side."

"Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side."

James Russell Lowell, American Poet

Truth, Conflict, Evil, Falsehood

15

"Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them."

"Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them."

Louise Bogan, American Poet

Heart, Feeling, Innocence, Violence

15

"The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one."

"The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one."

Edward Fitzgerald, English Poet

15

"My self-editing process is intense."

"My self-editing process is intense."

George Murray, Canadian Poet

15

"It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal."

"It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal."

Carol Ann Duffy, British Poet

Woman, Women, Poetry, Fiction

15

"Its visits, like those of angels, short, and far between."

"Its visits, like those of angels, short, and far between."

Robert Blair, American Poet

15

"I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless."

"I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless."

Anne Stevenson, American Poet

Life, Poetry, Family, Order

15

"Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones."

"Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones."

Rene Char, French Poet

15

"Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by."

"Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

15

"In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold."

"In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold."

John Leonard, Australian Poet

Reflection, Boldness, Memory, Mind, Night

15

"Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good."

"Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good."

Walter Savage Landor, English Poet

Happiness, Men, Goodness

15

"If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all because two thousand is too vast-I mean, for the imagination to grasp. While thirty-seven people-perhaps thirty-seven are too many, perhaps seventeen would have been better or even seven-but still thirty-seven are still within the scope of one's imagination."

"If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all because two thousand is too vast-I mean, for the imagination to grasp. While thirty-seven people-perhaps thirty-seven are too many, perhaps seventeen would have been better or even seven-but still thirty-seven are still within the scope of one's imagination."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

Relativity, Audience, Imagination, Meaning, Connection

15

"General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves."

"General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

Fact, Facts, Principles

15

"How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture."

"How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture."

Wallace Stevens, American Poet

Thought, Thoughts, Trifles

15

"But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form."

"But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form."

James Weldon Johnson, American Poet

Music, Desire, Voice

15

"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"

"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"

Dante Alighieri, Italian Poet

15

"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."

"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."

Ezra Pound, American Poet

Music, Church, Approval, Quakers

15

"No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days."

"No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days."

Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman Poet

Friendship, Friend, Guest, Will

15

"Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship."

"Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship."

Lucan, Roman Poet

15

"America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people."

"America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people."

Lord Byron, British Poet

People, America, Force, Freedom

15

"Two birds went for dating. The male bird was killed and the female bird is being murdered."

"Two birds went for dating. The male bird was killed and the female bird is being murdered."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Tragedy, Violence, Murder, Death

15

"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future."

"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future."

Euripides, Greek Poet

Future, Learning, Past, Youth

15

"To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all."

"To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all."

Randall Jarrell, American Poet

Manners, Americans, English

15

"I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population."

"I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population."

Oliver Goldsmith, Irish Poet

Family, Man, Opinion, Population

15

"The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling."

"The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling."

Petrarch, Italian Poet

15

"Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe."

"Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe."

Adrienne Rich, American Poet

Poetry, Power, Language, Universe

15

"Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and the person doesn't want to do a re-write. That's something we do almost nothing of."

"Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and the person doesn't want to do a re-write. That's something we do almost nothing of."

James Laughlin, American Poet

Literature, May, Nothing, Want

15

"The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord."

"The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord."

Barry Cornwall, English Poet

Earth, Tongue, Woman

15

"Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive."

"Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive."

Helen Dunmore, British Poet

Books, Children, Sense, Writer

15

"It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe."

"It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe."

Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

Philosophy, Thought, Meditation, Perception, Understanding

15

"I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry."

"I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry."

Diane Wakoski, American Poet

15

"There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon."

"There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon."

Matsuo Basho, Japanese Poet

15

"Despair often breeds disease."

"Despair often breeds disease."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Despair, Disease

15

"Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly's wings assures me of a pure, innocent world."

"Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly's wings assures me of a pure, innocent world."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Innocence, Transparency, Darkness, World

15

"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art."

"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

15

"Some of your hurts you have cured And the sharpest you still have survived But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived."

"Some of your hurts you have cured And the sharpest you still have survived But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Endurance, Grief, Evil

15

"A lantern can give you light only when you light it."

"A lantern can give you light only when you light it."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Illumination, Light, Power, Energy

15

"We are all born marked for evil."

"We are all born marked for evil."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

15

"In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name."

"In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name."

Phaedrus, Roman Poet

Change, Name, Nothing, Poor

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