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5714 Poet Quotes

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Gratitude Moments Life World
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For Man to tell how human life began is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

Man Human Life Beginning
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The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.

Childhood Man Shows Day
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The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

World Choose Rest Guide
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And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

Looks Soul Eyes
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Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

Abashed Devil Virtue Loss
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I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend...

Chaos Eternal Taught Dark
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Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

Touch Freedom Mind
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Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king

Passions Desires Fear King
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This horror will grow mild, this darkness light

Horror Mild Darkness Light
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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

Time Thief Youth Year
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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie

Sweet Compulsion Music
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O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.

Sun Hate Glorious Sphere
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Where the bright seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow

Bright Seraphim Loud Angels
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Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.

Overcomes Force Half Foe
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Luck is the residue of design
Luck Residue Design
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Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?

Mankind Fault Condemned Guiltless
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Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!

Strong Love Obey Great command
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They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness

People's Eyes Reproach Blindness
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What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

What Strength Share Wisdom
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We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Survive Moment Last one
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What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Art Space Breathing Spirit
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Growth is betrayal.

Growth Betrayal
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No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Act Private Applause
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Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.

Sun Moon Time
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Nature may be defined as that which exists without guilt.

Nature Defined Exists Guilt
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Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.

Critics Pastry
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Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Dreams True Nature Incite
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If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

You Guts People Price
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I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

Want Write Book Head
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Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.

Everybody You Act Breath
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We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

Cruel Meaning
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Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists.

Hope Premises Accidents Word
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Writing Criticism Fiction Poetry
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As souls must cry when they awaken in tiny babies and find themselves far from heaven

Souls Cry Awaken Heaven
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It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Easy Love People Memory
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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

Activity Creative Cares Right
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Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

Write Shield Hiding Pain
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Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us

Children Creatures Mirrors Human
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Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

Laws Ghosts Country Earth
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In general the churches ... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola: they promoted thirst without quenching it.

Churches Relation God Thirst
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Part of being human is being on the verge of disgrace.

Part Human Verge Disgrace
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The universe is a pointless, self running machine, and we are insignificant by-products, whom death will tuck back into oblivion, with or without holy fanfare.

Universe Machine By-products Death
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That's why we love disaster, Harry sees it, puts us back in touch with guilt and sends us crawling back to God

Love Disaster Guilt God
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There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.

Happiness Sacrifices Losses Betrayals
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We are most alive when we're in love.

Alive Love
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All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.

Love Betrayal Life Armed
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History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.

History Live Memory Decline
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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

Celebrity Mask Eats Face
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Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

Suspect Moment Thief
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