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"There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired."

"There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired."

Edward Young, English Poet

Poetry, Logic, Mystery, Prose

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"He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below."

"He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below."

Lord Byron, British Poet

13

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Reason, Treason

13

"When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her."

"When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her."

Adrienne Rich, American Poet

Truth, Possibility, Woman

12

"My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human."

"My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Philosophy, Humanity, Identity, Life

12

"The painful truth about life is not death but death while you are alive."

"The painful truth about life is not death but death while you are alive."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Life, Truth, Existence, Emptiness

12

"Beauty is not caused. It is."

"Beauty is not caused. It is."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

12

"Ignorance is not innocence but sin."

"Ignorance is not innocence but sin."

Robert Browning Hamilton, American Poet

Ignorance, Innocence, Sin

12

"We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming."

"We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming."

Novalis, German Poet

12

"I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery."

"I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Hatred, Disease, Hate, Treachery

12

"Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn."

"Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn."

Thomas Gray, English Poet

Poetry, Thoughts, Words

12

"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease."

"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Health, Diet, Anxiety, Disease

12

"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."

"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."

George Chapman, English Poet

12

"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."

"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

Poetry, Quarrel, Rhetoric

12

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Writing, Profession

12

"Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger."

"Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger."

Silius Italicus, Roman Poet

Experience, Danger, Inaction, Word

12

"We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line."

"We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line."

Langston Hughes, American Poet

Being, Censorship, Writers

12

"The gods behold all righteous actions."

"The gods behold all righteous actions."

Ovid, Roman Poet

God, Gods, Actions

12

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

e. e. cummings, American Poet

12

"You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble."

"You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble."

Charles Olson, American Poet

Life, People, Help, Poems

12

"Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home."

"Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home."

Matsuo Basho, Japanese Poet

Home, Day, Journey

12

"Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent."

"Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Talent, Celebrity, Merit, Punishment

12

"Let silence take you to the core of life."

"Let silence take you to the core of life."

Rumi, Persian Poet

Meditation, Silence, Life, Peace

12

"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."

"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."

Khalil Gibran, Lebanese Poet

Love, Religion, Church, Mosque

12

"Dreamers must dream on as long as the nightmare wakes them upto greet with a bucketful of reality."

"Dreamers must dream on as long as the nightmare wakes them upto greet with a bucketful of reality."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Dream, Reality, Nightmare, Awakening

12

"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other."

"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other."

Paul Valery, French Poet

12

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Poetry, Emotion, Emotions, Expression

12

"We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other."

"We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other."

Audre Lorde, American Poet

Love, Women, Habit, Study

12

"Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow."

"Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow."

Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Spanish Poet

Learning, Tomorrow, World

12

"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."

"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."

William Whitehead, English Poet

Wisdom, Virtue, Ambition, Fame

12

"There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam."

"There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam."

Eliza Cook, English Poet

Home, Heart, Footsteps, Land

12

"We loved with a love that was more than love."

"We loved with a love that was more than love."

Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

12

"Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes by making them the fruit of his character."

"Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes by making them the fruit of his character."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Nature, Man, Fate, Character

12

"I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it."

"I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it."

Mary Oliver, American Poet

11

"Suicide and mental health problems have no boundaries."

"Suicide and mental health problems have no boundaries."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Mental Health, Suicide, Awareness, Life

11

"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity."

"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity."

John Milton, English Poet

Death, Eternity, Key

11

"Happiness is a good business these days, more you talk crap about happiness the large number of crowd you will gather."

"Happiness is a good business these days, more you talk crap about happiness the large number of crowd you will gather."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Satire, Happiness, Business, Irony, Truth

11

"From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea."

"From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea."

Algernon Charles Swinburne, English Poet

Life, Love, Men, Fear

11

"If you claim to be a real friend then be real in your soul. If you claim to be fake then be an enemy instead."

"If you claim to be a real friend then be real in your soul. If you claim to be fake then be an enemy instead."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Loyalty, Friendship, Trust, Truth

11

"Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility."

"Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility."

James Montgomery, British Poet

11

"Authority forgets a dying king."

"Authority forgets a dying king."

Alfred Lord Tennyson, English Poet

Authority, Dying

11

"Student: I don't feel like living anymore. Teacher: If you don't feel like doing something then don't do. This means that in finding many ways how not to live your life, you have the possibility to discover how to live your life."

"Student: I don't feel like living anymore. Teacher: If you don't feel like doing something then don't do. This means that in finding many ways how not to live your life, you have the possibility to discover how to live your life."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Guidance, Advice, Discovery, Possibility

11

"Everybody will get their wants, when they heartily want."

"Everybody will get their wants, when they heartily want."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Manifestation, Desire, Will, Success

11

"Light tomorrow with today!"

"Light tomorrow with today!"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Poet

Opportunity, Light, Tomorrow

11

"The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receiving."

"The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receiving."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Inequality, Wealth, Poverty, Justice

11

"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair."

"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair."

Alfred Lord Tennyson, English Poet

Action, Despair

11

"Fear is proof of a degenerate mind."

"Fear is proof of a degenerate mind."

Virgil, Roman Poet

Fear, Mind, Proof

11

"Oh, to be in England now that April's there."

"Oh, to be in England now that April's there."

Robert Browning, English Poet

Nostalgia, April, England, Now

11

"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world."

"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Self, Soul, Integrity, Mind, Truth

11

"Love is not in our choice but in our fate."

"Love is not in our choice but in our fate."

John Dryden, English Poet

Love, Choice, Fate

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