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5714 Poet Quotes

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

Done Fall Find God
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I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

Believe Converted First Hears
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

Admire Bandit Bear Book
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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

Always Anything Close Mountains
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

Care Cure Follies Mean
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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

Actor Audience Author Business
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

Feel Good Sneeze Spiteful
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Bird Dead Drop Frozen
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I shall always be a priest of love.
Always Love Priest Shall
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

Glad Invincible Steps Strangled
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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

Dry Rule Stick Streak
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

Bitter Body Difficult Live
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

Bad Being Funeral Perpetual
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Life Ours Saved Spent
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

Bites Curse Deep Literature
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
Always Cheap Laugh Medicine
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Architecture Dress Eighty Hundred
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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Adversity First Path Truth
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I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

All Things Always Believed Depended
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They never fail who die in a great cause.
Cause Die Fail Great
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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Certain Desire Life Prolongs
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

All Our Lives Each Great Had
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I love not man the less, but Nature more.

I Love Less Love Man
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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Empty Go Mad Mind
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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

Been Entire Ever Motive
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Death Life Makes Men
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This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

Bands Fall Fear Freed
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Celebrity Glad He Know
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

Dust Feathers Highly Men
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He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

Could Cruel Earth He
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Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

Danger Fly His Late
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Dangerous Late Life Like
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Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

Allah Angels Desire Earth
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Absence - that common cure of love.

Absence Common Cure Love
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
Bigots Cannot Dare Fools
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Cannot Deny Doubt Everything
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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Compassion A Dew Tear
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Heart Instinct Like There
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The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

Good Old Times All
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

Always Company Could Feel
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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Becoming Champagne Drinking Eating
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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Detest Haste Leisure Love
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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

Alone Feeling Felt Infinite
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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Altogether Arises Consistency Except
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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

Absurd Breaks Every Given
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

About Anxious Atom Came
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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

Cannot Codes Devils Hell
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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Fame Thirst Youth Of
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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

Fame Folly Loves Martyrdom
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

Being Best Drunk Get
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