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5714 Poet Quotes

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
Name Joy Days Old
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

Sun Moon Doubt Immediately
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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

Sinister Person Enemy Start
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time
Eternity Love Production Time
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Every harlot was a virgin once.

Harlot Virgin Once
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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Everything Live Life Delight
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Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

Love Seeketh Please Build
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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

Woe Sorrow Seek Relief
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
Excessive Sorrow Joy Weeps
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Man Sees Formed Powers
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Foot Persists.folly Wise
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
Hours Measured Clock Wisdom
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

Who Desires Breeds Pestilence
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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

Prison.built Stone Law Brothel
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The true method of knowledge is experiment.
True Method Knowledge Experiment
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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
Thankful Receiver Bears Harvest
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The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
Soul Sweet Delight Defiled
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Fool Sees Tree Wise
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

Active Better Passive Good
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
Thing Loves Infinite
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

World Fiction Made Contradiction
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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow

Imagination Eternal World Vegetable
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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
Face Light Star
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Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

Love Blind Joy Lawless
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The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

Bad Artist Good Bad
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Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
Art Exist Naked Beauty
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Opposition is true friendship.
Opposition Friendship True
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

Progression Attraction Repulsion Reason
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

Down Fence Love Neighbor
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Biscuits Poetry Synthesis
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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Baby Go God Life
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Goes Hands Language Rolls
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Asking Dance Echo Poetry
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Myself Poetry Some Understand
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Come Give Nobody Sometime
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Actions Doomed Equivalent Failure
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Becomes Book Dead Genius
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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

About Against Anger Directed
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Admire Desiring Happiness Secret
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A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Awake Born Die First
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Careful Coin Determine How
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.

Boulder Bush Deep Dig
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

Awake Eyes Morning Open
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

Colossal Language Never People
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

America Creative Discover Greatest
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

Cunning Greatest None
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

Done Grammar Life Made
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I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Am Going Idealist Know
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

Been Best Came Life
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Dream First Happens Nothing
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