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5714 Poet Quotes

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

First House Hydrant Off
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Life Poetry Taking Throat
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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Am Books I Am Learn
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Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

Cowardice Engaging Humor Most
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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Affair Love Love Affair Never
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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Change Education Higher Higher Plane
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Deserve Father Love Love You
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The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Always Democrat Father His
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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Family Family Life Greatest Greatest Thing
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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
Easy Freedom Harness You
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Civilized Civilized Society Doubtful Eccentricity
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Against Beginners Business Market
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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Baseball Both Intervals Like
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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Alone Call English Make
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
Ear Only Reader True
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

Cent Did Ever Every
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Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

Anywhere Being Boss Female
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Acquiesce Consent Control Deployed
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Afflict Disease Egotism Executives
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
More More People People Reason
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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Full People Rest Some
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

His Liberal Man Own
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Great Performed Perseverance Strength
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Disagreeable I Think Least Music
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Find Information Kinds Know
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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

About Grief Grievance Poetry
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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Counted Forgiving Get Had
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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
Call Comfortably Enough Fits
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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Accept Against Aim Always Asked
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Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
Around Caught Education Hanging
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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Epitaph Had Lover Me
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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Against Because Best Cream
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Being Chance Drowned Jail
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Fine Meet Out Over
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Advertisement Large Promise Soul
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Absolutely Good He Him
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Disadvantages Makes Man Mistake
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Been Frost Gives Had
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Anything Changing Disposition Efforts
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Almost Attempting Display Does
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Any Because Courage Greatest
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Compared Consider Done He
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Even Fondness Kindness Our
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Bed Before Going Scoundrel
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Art Pleasure Poetry Truth
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Given Law Little Much
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Certain Characteristics Curiosity Intellect
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Acquaintances Advances Alone Constant
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
Easy Excellent Seldom
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Aim Ambition Cannot Cured
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