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5714 Poet Quotes

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Bush Charms Else Fear
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If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years.

About Alice Being Believing
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I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Had Hurry Mother Never
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We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.

Affection Became Came Child
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Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
Eldest Harm Mother Nature
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In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

Broken Hopes Lest Life
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Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either!
Artist Author Badly Either
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I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

Adjectives Advances Being Felt
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I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost like a caricature series from Dickens to see our head table at Newnham.

Almost Among Cambridge Caricature
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It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.
Age Clever Criticism Critics
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There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don't have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job.

About America Career Job
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I looked on my stomach and saw Frieda Rebecca, white as flour with the cream that covers new babies, funny little dark squiggles of hair plastered over her head, with big, dark-blue eyes.

Babies Big Covers Cream
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I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.

Am Best Genius I Am
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I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things, such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on.

Believe Bigger Certainly Experience
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
His Made Mine Our
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Any Dead Living Precious
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

After Altered Changed Color
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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.
Equal Faith Heaven I See
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

Bloom Blooms Constantly Dark
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Bad Bad One Face Good
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Breed People Proud Sad
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Am Company Country Cured
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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Chance Clock Day Half
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Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

Admire Charity Erect Giving
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

Against Beneath Crush Down
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Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Deeds Hide Honest Honest People
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I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

Another Choose Guide Leading
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Terror made me cruel.

Cruel Made Me Terror
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

Beyond Cannot Everybody Existence
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Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

Heavenly Humility Low Root
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.

Close Forgets Heart Loved
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And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

Again Pain Part Sail
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And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Always Awake First Flowers
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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

Down Gone Heaven Like
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Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Away Came Friendship Love
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It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

Happy Luxury Only Tears
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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

Around Brings Days Fond
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Oh! blame not the bard.
Blame Oh
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The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.

Been Eyes Has-Been Heart
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Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

Bondage Disguise Our Rules
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My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

Books Folly Looks Me
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
Age Friends Gave Leaves
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Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.

Advice Advise Ask Reverse
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Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

Anguish Bring Cannot Earth
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This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

Became Brain Driven Gave
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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.

Pretty Retire Something Vanity
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Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

Flag Freedom Her Mockery
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It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed
Soul
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We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

Like Need
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It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.

Creativity Darkness Depths
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