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5714 Poet Quotes

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

America Force Freedom Model
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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

American Emperor Nod Rather
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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

Chaos God High Made
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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Believe Christianity Great Great Mind
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Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

Circumstances Men Seems Sport
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Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Amiable Discernment Finding Great
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There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

Calms Doubt Much Naught
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Blossoms Brief Duration Enjoyed
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

Animal Fear Men World
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

Collective Madness Money Vast
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My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
Easily Folks God Love
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

Belief Flesh Wiser Blood
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

Attempt Blood Deep Description
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

Artist Created Critic Function
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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

Art Aside Bones Glorious
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

Everything Girl Innocent Maiden
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

Disease Ghastly Hideous Live
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

Better Brutality Laugh Mix
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
Books Emotions Master Presents
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Only in a novel are all things given full play.
Full Given Novel Play
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

Age Essentially Ours Refuse
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

Absurdity Truth Day Fish
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Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

Arises Beauty Consciousness Inseparable
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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

Almost Art Passion Obscenity
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The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Art Between Business Environment
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

Cruelest Man Perfection Portray
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

Earth Fairest Flower Manure
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Far Find Go Going
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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Arrive Cease End Exploration
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
Changing Help Language Only
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Beginning Call End Make
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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Entertainment Joke Listen Lonesome
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Age Believe Certain Certain Age
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
Bear Cannot Humankind Much
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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
Bang Ends Way World
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

Cure Earth You
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Again Better Ever Fail
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I can't go on. I'll go on

Go
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

Been Else Matters Nothing
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

About Another Beginning Book
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

Another Begins Constant Each
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Birth was the death of him.

Birth Death Him
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Beat Drops Head Kiss
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Ape Autumn Beauty Dying
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Deep Grown Like My Soul
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

Air Cleanse Cool Earth
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

Democracy Everybody Lord Me
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

Care Cry Out People
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Got Humor Laughing Ought
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It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

Always Being Bore Poor
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