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5714 Poet Quotes

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

Being Cannot Important Important Things
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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Imagination Man Nature Over
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

Art Comparison Intolerance Itself
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They say women and music should never be dated.

Dated Music Never Say
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Consists Fall Getting Just
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Each Friendship Incompatible Other
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Fishes Like Little Make
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Audience Best Best Way Laugh
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Better Could Critic How
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Ceremonies Country Different Every
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Always Company End Feel
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Bad How Journey Life
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Books Everything Friends I Love
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Alive Bring Disadvantages Enough
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

Appreciated Husband Little Pitied
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

Art Away Betray Charm
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

Brought Continue Did Ever
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Girl Like Little Played
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Commerce Honour Long Prevails
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Alone Anticipation Calamity Future
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Blind Country Curiosity Goes
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Beauty Bliss Charming Colors
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Arise Attaining Become Desire
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Law Men Poor Rich
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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

Dog Door Perpetually Side
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Being Cannot Gets Good
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

Answer Ask Correction Disorder
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

Find Identity Keep Mind
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

Add God Greatest Included
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
Direct Everything Experience Instead
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
Alone Become Billion Careless
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
Few Lines Nature Sharp
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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

Attention Directed Greater Lesser
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Articles Concerning Flood Grateful
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

Along Every Five Hundred
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Anything Becomes Closely Looked
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For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.

Certain Concrete Large Limited
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Become Blank Definition Other
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

Becoming Each Extensions Laws
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.

Act Chance Disaster Discovery
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

Beings Leads Our Poetry
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

Assurance Been Himself Learned
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That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

Certainly Change Directly Enterprise
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

Burning Other Past Poem
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

Along Cannot Day Each
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

Actual Besides Class Differs
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Condemned Past Remember Repeat
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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Country Eyes Feet His
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The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Learn Mind Something Wisest
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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
Intelligence Quickness Seeing Things
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