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"But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it."

"But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it."

Audre Lorde, American Poet

Work, Survival, Key, Question

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"No man is wise enough by himself."

"No man is wise enough by himself."

Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman Poet

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"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"

"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"

May Sarton, American Poet

Genius, Baby, Forget, Months

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"So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee."

"So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee."

Robert Browning, English Poet

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"God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice."

"God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice."

John Donne, British Poet

God, Age, War, Justice

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"Why be a man when you can be a success?"

"Why be a man when you can be a success?"

Bertolt Brecht, German Poet

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"I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone."

"I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion."

"Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion."

Eugenio Montale, Italian Poet

Time, Fashion, Fire, Laws

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"I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day."

"I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day."

Philip Larkin, English Poet

Travel, Day, Mind

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"Visions of glory, spare my aching sight."

"Visions of glory, spare my aching sight."

Thomas Gray, English Poet

Glory, Sight, Visions

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"New cells are born everyday and old cells die, but they have neither funerals nor birthdays."

"New cells are born everyday and old cells die, but they have neither funerals nor birthdays."

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Poet

Biology, Birth, Death, Life, Cycle

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"To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you."

"To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you."

Rita Dove, American Poet

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"This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air."

"This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

Politics, London, Melancholy

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"Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit."

"Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit."

James Russell Lowell, American Poet

Reputation, Light, Merit, World

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"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning."

"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning."

A. E. Housman, English Poet

Optimism, American, Cunning, Innocence

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"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

Euripides, Greek Poet

Friendship, Friend, Relatives, Worth

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"Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round."

"Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

Dream, Dreams, Will

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"If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain - in time you will move through your pain."

"If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain - in time you will move through your pain."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Healing, Pain, Listening, Respect

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"Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know."

"Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead."

"He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead."

John Keats, English Poet

Spiritual, Immortality

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"Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment."

"Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment."

Euripides, Greek Poet

Fortune, Judgment

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"A thinking woman sleeps with monsters."

"A thinking woman sleeps with monsters."

Adrienne Rich, American Poet

Thinking, Woman

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"Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing."

"Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing."

William Collins, English Poet

Humor, Poetry, Nothing, Shakespeare

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"It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it."

"It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it."

Audre Lorde, American Poet

Time, Sex, People, Metaphor

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"Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."

"Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

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"In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile."

"In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile."

Elinor Wylie, American Poet

Fear, Smile, Years

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"All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters."

"All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters."

Jupiter Hammon, American Poet

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"Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else."

"Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else."

Gwendolyn Brooks, American Poet

Ethnicity, Minority

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"The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates."

"The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates."

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American Poet

Future, Lies, Publishing

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"When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms."

"When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms."

Mary Oliver, American Poet

Life, Want, World

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"Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market."

"Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market."

Ezra Pound, American Poet

Nothing, Printing, Worth

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"Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up."

"Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up."

Kenneth Rexroth, American Poet

Life, Temple, Buddhism, Buddhist

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"Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind."

"Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind."

Wislawa Szymborska, Polish Poet

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"Ascension through all levels of consciousness and awareness can only happen when you live life as you, and not how others think you should live. How could self-realization possibly be anything other than being yourself?"

"Ascension through all levels of consciousness and awareness can only happen when you live life as you, and not how others think you should live. How could self-realization possibly be anything other than being yourself?"

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Self-Realization, Consciousness, Truth, Wisdom, Power

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"Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less."

"Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less."

Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Poet

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"If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex."

"If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex."

Norman MacCaig, Scottish Poet

Age, Sex, Play, Talk

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"We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire."

"We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire."

Rupert Brooke, English Poet

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"Genius is of no country."

"Genius is of no country."

Charles Churchill, English Poet

Genius, Country

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"When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings."

"When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings."

Rita Dove, American Poet

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"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."

"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

Life, God, Baby, Opinion

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"Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame."

"Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame."

Hesiod, Greek Poet

Work, Idleness, Shame

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"This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief."

"This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief."

Charles Olson, American Poet

Trust, Belief, Country, Unconscious

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"If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good."

"If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good."

Antonio Porchia, Italian Poet

14

"A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art."

"A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art."

Mark Strand, American Poet

Life, Art, Poetry

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"Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor."

"Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor."

William Cowper, English Poet

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"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope."

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely."

"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely."

Pam Brown, American Poet

Friendship, Letters, Needs, Silly

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"The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart."

"The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart."

Georg Trakl, Austrian Poet

Heart, Eyes, Gold, Night

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"A world in the hand is worth two in the bush."

"A world in the hand is worth two in the bush."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Metaphor, World, Values

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"The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone."

"The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone."

Paul Celan, Romanian Poet

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