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5714 Poet Quotes

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Away Because Forgive Haste
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Food Art Consumed Dish
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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Advance Always Eye Know
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

Choice Life Accept Action
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For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

Bear Feel Forgotten Himself
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Good He Him Inclination
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Advantages Better Carries Countries
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Book Greatest Half Library
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Converse Desire He Man
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Feeling Good Opera People
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

Sleep Lse Someone Talk
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Physical Begin Continue Mental
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

Love Admire Laugh Common
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Books Forgotten None Remembered
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

Originality Confuse Never Aim
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Bores Rich Down Office
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Mortals Same Because Geniuses
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Verbal Music Art Become
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In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

Believe Standard Double Often
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Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

Beautiful Everything Eye Fair
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If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.

Been Cleared Dull Face
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Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Another Anything Form Grieve
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All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

Bright Brightest Fade Lost
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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Been Desire Every Every Heart
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Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Beauty Love What You Love You
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Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

Boredom Cup Disappear Fills
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From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

About All Day Away Breeze
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Every woman adores a Fascist.
Adore Every Fascist Woman
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It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

Away Back Come Depends
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

Am Breath Deep Deep Breath
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There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

Bath Cure Few Few Things
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

Beautiful Beauty Caused God
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I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.

Beings Companion Eye Face
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

About Creativity Nemy Everything
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Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.
Being Bloom Every Full
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
Empty God Sky Talk
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Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

Away Bird Fly Hundred
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Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

Accept Apparently Both Cambridge
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You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.

Article Every Foolishness Know
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You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.

Come Fortunate Know Lucky
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Art Call Could Dying
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This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

Day Essence Know Reckoning
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There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

Desire Grows Invisible Objects
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Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

Beloved Created Creative Earthly
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The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.

Another Forms Gifts Invisible
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May these vows and this marriage be blessed.

Blessed Marriage May Vows
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May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

Day Every Every Day Full
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Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

Absorb Attention Away Beg
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I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'

Beginning Calls Companion Dawn
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Is there no way out of the mind?
Mind Out Way
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