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Quotes by Poet

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

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

George Chapman, English Poet

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"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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"Run, leap and celebrate for you are alive today!"

"Run, leap and celebrate for you are alive today!"

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Celebration, Happiness, Life, Today, Joy

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"Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about."

"Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Authenticity, Originality, Writers

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"Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt."

"Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt."

Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Poet

Home, Life, Borrowing, Debt

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"Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority."

"Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority."

Robert Creeley, American Poet

Authority, Name

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"If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend."

"If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend."

Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Spanish Poet

Friendship, Friend, Enemy, Want

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"The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander."

"The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander."

Walter Savage Landor, English Poet

Literature, Posterity, Writing

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"All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed."

"All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Reform, Truth, Inspirational, Power, Happiness

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"Fate will find a way."

"Fate will find a way."

Virgil, Roman Poet

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"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them."

"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them."

Ogden Nash, American Poet

Marriage, People, Alliance

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"The direction you choose to face determines whether you're standing at the end or the beginning of a road."

"The direction you choose to face determines whether you're standing at the end or the beginning of a road."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Direction, Truth, Life, Power, Wisdom

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"I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose."

"I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose."

Elinor Wylie, American Poet

Heaven, Hell, Inheritance

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"Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath."

"Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath."

William Collins, English Poet

Democracy, Feminism, Words

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"As beauty lies in eyes of beholder, struggling lies in reaching further."

"As beauty lies in eyes of beholder, struggling lies in reaching further."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Struggle, Beauty, Effort, Perseverance

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"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."

Allen Ginsberg, American Poet

Poetry, Time, Bed, Expression

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"The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away."

"The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away."

William Cowper, English Poet

Hope, Day, Tomorrow, Will

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"Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions."

"Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions."

Anne Stevenson, American Poet

Emotional, Feelings, Hope, Emotions, Mind

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"The Lord survives the rainbow of His will."

"The Lord survives the rainbow of His will."

Robert Lowell, American Poet

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"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet."

"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet."

Stanislaw Lec, Polish Poet

Caution, Feet, Joy

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"Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue."

"Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue."

Philip Massinger, British Poet

Virtue, Ambition, Man, Vice

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"I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?"

"I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?"

James Merrill, American Poet

Creativity, Scientists

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"To believe in yourself is to light a spark with the potential to start a fire."

"To believe in yourself is to light a spark with the potential to start a fire."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Self-Belief, Inspirational, Truth, Power, Wisdom

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"A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity."

"A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity."

Alexander Smith, Scottish Poet

Man, Plants, Posterity

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"I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'"

"I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'"

Nikki Giovanni, American Poet

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"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age."

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age."

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American Poet

Age, Heart, Old

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"Plenty of foods inside my stomach.Soul is empty."

"Plenty of foods inside my stomach.Soul is empty."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Emptiness, Hunger, Soul, Life

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"Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good."

"Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Paradox, Power, Duality, Morality

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"A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world."

"A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world."

Alice Duer Miller, American Poet

Family, Mother, Circumstance, Fact, Feeling

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"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."

"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."

William Shenstone, English Poet

Love, Time, Country

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"Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire."

"Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire."

William Blake, English Poet

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"In reality art is always for everyone and for no one."

"In reality art is always for everyone and for no one."

Eugenio Montale, Italian Poet

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"We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life."

"We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life."

Raymond Queneau, French Poet

Life, Character, Events

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"I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count."

"I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count."

Robert Lloyd, English Poet

Inspirational, Inspiration, Care, End, Results

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"I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then."

"I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then."

Marilyn Hacker, American Poet

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"There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher."

"There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher."

Henry Van Dyke, American Poet

Ambition, Mankind, World

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"To see you naked is to recall the Earth."

"To see you naked is to recall the Earth."

Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish Poet

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"Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases."

"Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases."

Anne Bradstreet, American Poet

Man, Men, God, Affliction

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"If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like."

"If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like."

Randall Jarrell, American Poet

Politics, Politicians

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"A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct."

"A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct."

Ezra Pound, American Poet

Instinct, Sound

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"My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs."

"My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs."

Philip Levine, American Poet

Poetry, Mother, Ambition, Songs

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"We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate. From images that are full, the spirit plunges on to others that suddenly must be filled; there are no lakes till eternity. Here, falling is best. To fall from the mastered emotion into the guessed-at, and onward."

"We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate. From images that are full, the spirit plunges on to others that suddenly must be filled; there are no lakes till eternity. Here, falling is best. To fall from the mastered emotion into the guessed-at, and onward."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Impermanence, Movement, Change, Emotion, Journey

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