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"When you accept your value and have gratitude you are declaring your worthiness of further receivership."

"When you accept your value and have gratitude you are declaring your worthiness of further receivership."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Gratitude, Values, Life, Truth

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"It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old."

"It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old."

Leigh Hunt, English Poet

Books, Old, Satisfaction

14

"Many a trace, and many a germ of this infantile disease, to which without a doubt, I also am a victim, has been chased away by your brochure, or will yet be eradicated by it."

"Many a trace, and many a germ of this infantile disease, to which without a doubt, I also am a victim, has been chased away by your brochure, or will yet be eradicated by it."

Herman Gorter, Dutch Poet

Opinion, Disease, Doubt, Will

14

"By blood a king, in heart a clown."

"By blood a king, in heart a clown."

Alfred Lord Tennyson, English Poet

14

"I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay."

"I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay."

Helen Dunmore, British Poet

14

"Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty."

"Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty."

Phaedrus, Roman Poet

Character, Cruelty

14

"A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties."

"A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties."

Anne Stevenson, American Poet

Emotional, Feelings, Thinking

14

"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."

"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Faith, Life, Fight, Right

14

"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."

"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."

Edith Sitwell, British Poet

Music, Hobbies, Listening, Reading

14

"Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind."

"Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet

Poetry, Work, Creation, Mind

14

"There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily."

"There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily."

Geoffrey Chaucer, English Poet

14

"Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative."

"Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative."

Marilyn Hacker, American Poet

Architecture, Moments, Poems

14

"Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death."

"Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death."

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Poet

Metaphysics, Life, Death, Reality, Spirit

14

"If only I could see myself from the same vantage point that I observe the world; I might judge my behavior and expressions more critically, and others less."

"If only I could see myself from the same vantage point that I observe the world; I might judge my behavior and expressions more critically, and others less."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Self-Awareness, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

14

"A moment's thinking is an hour in words."

"A moment's thinking is an hour in words."

Thomas Hood, English Poet

Thinking, Words

14

"I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does."

"I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does."

Charles Olson, American Poet

14

"I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme."

"I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme."

Paul Muldoon, English Poet

14

"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."

"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."

Ezra Pound, American Poet

Civilization, Values, Balance, Man

14

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars."

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars."

Henry Van Dyke, American Poet

Life, Love, Work, Chance

14

"There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy."

"There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy."

William Shenstone, English Poet

People, Day, Envy, Nothing

14

"Kindness is the supreme intelligence."

"Kindness is the supreme intelligence."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Behavior, Kindness, Intelligence, Wisdom, Power

14

"Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains."

"Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains."

Francis Quarles, English Poet

14

"We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous."

"We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous."

Alfred de Vigny, French Poet

14

"I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory."

"I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory."

Andre Breton, French Poet

Dream, Dreams, Events, Importance, Man

14

"Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language."

"Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language."

Joseph Brodsky, American Poet

Language, World

14

"Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings."

"Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings."

Carol Ann Duffy, British Poet

Emotional, Feelings, Language, Poets, Trying

14

"They constantly try to escapeFrom the darkness outside and withinBy dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.But the man that is shall shadowThe man that pretends to be."

"They constantly try to escapeFrom the darkness outside and withinBy dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.But the man that is shall shadowThe man that pretends to be."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Struggle, Darkness, Escape, Dream, Man

14

"After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze."

"After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze."

Adelbert von Chamisso, German Poet

Weariness, First

14

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."

Robert Browning, English Poet

14

"Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible."

"Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible."

Craig Raine, British Poet

Writer, Writers

14

"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal."

"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal."

Dante Alighieri, Italian Poet

14

"I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us."

"I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us."

Helen Dunmore, British Poet

Reading, Progress, Poems, Poets

14

"All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves."

"All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves."

Robert Browning Hamilton, American Poet

14

"Being alone is much better than being around negative people out of loneliness or desperation."

"Being alone is much better than being around negative people out of loneliness or desperation."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Solitude, Truth, Happiness, Inspirational, Wisdom

14

"Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me."

"Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me."

Wislawa Szymborska, Polish Poet

14

"You are nothing less than a miracle!"

"You are nothing less than a miracle!"

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Miracle, Truth, Happiness, Inspirational, Wisdom

14

"He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world."

"He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world."

George Herbert, British Poet

Reputation, Credit, World

14

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."

Matsuo Basho, Japanese Poet

Society, Footsteps

14

"Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend."

"Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend."

William Cowper, English Poet

Friendship, Friend, Ceremony, Fight, Shadows

14

"I am ashamed the law is such an ass."

"I am ashamed the law is such an ass."

George Chapman, English Poet

14

"Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly."

"Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

14

"Whom the gods love dies young."

"Whom the gods love dies young."

Menander, Greek Poet

14

"Darkness always causes fear and chaos inside us. We are always scared of losing ourselves somewhere inside there. But some of us get so much used to it that we start feeling peaceful in there and we start spending more time in it. One weird thing about darkness is, we meet ourselves there. Who are very different from what we are. And once we start speaking with them we become addicted to that kind of conversations. We fall in love with the same thing that we tried to run away from out whole life."

"Darkness always causes fear and chaos inside us. We are always scared of losing ourselves somewhere inside there. But some of us get so much used to it that we start feeling peaceful in there and we start spending more time in it. One weird thing about darkness is, we meet ourselves there. Who are very different from what we are. And once we start speaking with them we become addicted to that kind of conversations. We fall in love with the same thing that we tried to run away from out whole life."

Akshay Vasu, Indian Poet

Introspection, Darkness, Fear, Peace, Self

14

"We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead."

"We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead."

Alexander Smith, Scottish Poet

Love, Forgetfulness

14

"A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace."

"A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace."

Walter de La Mare, English Poet

Dream, Day, Light, May

14

"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies."

"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies."

Alfred Lord Tennyson, English Poet

Truth, Lie, Lies

14

"None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet."

"None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet."

Torquato Tasso, Italian Poet

God, Name, Italiian

14

"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."

"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."

Wallace Stevens, American Poet

Art, Religion, People, Intolerance

14

"The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised."

"The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised."

Herbert Read, English Poet

Emotional, Feeling, Rectitude, Sense

14

"We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements."

"We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements."

Alfred de Vigny, French Poet

Age, Exploration, Investigation

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