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5714 Poet Quotes

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Fame Give Give Me Life
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I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.

Bit Collection Collector Conversation
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Fortune befriends the bold.

Bold Fortune Friendship The
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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Anvil Better Hammer Than
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Age Gradually Old Old Age
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Demon Done First First Time
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Body Book Cold Ever
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A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

Children Cracks Fill Flowers
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A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Begins Day Dead Just
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Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Come Dawn Door Every
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There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.
Away Forgot Game Hurt
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They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Head Just Me Might
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Where thou art, that is home.

Art Home Thou Thou Art
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I pass by people, grazing them on the edges, and it bothers me. I've got to admire someone to really like them deeply - to value them as friends.

Admire Bothers Deeply Edges
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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Always Everywhere God Him
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Die Immortality Love Love Is
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Birds Economical Going Heaven
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Deer Highest Leaps Wounded
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Fame Fickle Food Plate
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Am Experience Feel Horribly
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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Beauty Nature Is Caused
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Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Fail Finite Infinite Venture
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

After Feeling Formal Great
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I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled.
Believe Earth Get Ignored Inherit
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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Argue Hath Immortality Life
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Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.

Employ Freedom How Know
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Delightful Rare Tell Truth
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Develop Hard Hard Times Muscles
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Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.
Action Constructive Ndecision Reverie
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Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing - and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.

Am Descriptive Emotions Greatly
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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Feel Head I Feel Know
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Any Away Book Lands
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There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

Bath Cure Few Few Things
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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Slant Tell But Truth
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Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Most Nothing Saying Says
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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dying New Night Road
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The brain is wider than the sky.

Brain Sky Than Wider
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Again Come Life Makes
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There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.
Am Fool Hospital I Am
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A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.

Axis Babies Baby Been
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My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen.

Because Died Dying Father
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My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own.

Atlantic Childhood Clearest Cold
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Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody solicitous will bundle me into a car and drive me to the nearest briny horizon.

About Bundle Car Childhood
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Mountains terrify me - they just sit about; they are so proud.
About Just Me Mountains
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Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind.

Belief Believe Beyond Force
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Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions).

America Arrogant England Her
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

Because Beings Better Dogs
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Breath Creation Death Initial
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I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.
Cold Did Ghost Had
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I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Because Books Brother Brother And Sister
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