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5714 Poet Quotes

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Any Except His Man
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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Back Defeat Every Laughter
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

Calling Easy Enough Girl
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Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

Behind Blunder Cheer Dangers
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I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

Career Definite Filling Misty
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
Deep Fell Love Out
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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

Beautifully Become Book Coming
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

Friends Good Judgment Learned
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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

Bum Either Going Writer
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

Dictionary Earlier Help Poets
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Always Away Burn Consolation
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To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Good How Learn Loser
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We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

Book Get Think Till
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Layer Life Like Off
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Friend Lonesome Moon Talk
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Hands Joy Keep Out
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Away How Made Phantom
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

After Damn Die Go
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Birth Child Commanding Give
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

About Blow Destiny Night
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

Eagle Hippopotamus Me Mud
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

Agree Feeling Loves Man
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

Along Always Brought Came
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
Man Virtuous Soul Commands
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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Poetry Mirror Beautiful Distorted
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Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

Man Uniform Adds Excuse
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Great Instrument Moral Imagination
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
More Study Discover Ignorance
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Fear Future Weep Past
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

Drunken Joy Taste Wine
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Poetry Best Happiest Moment
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Tragedy Delight Affording Pleasure
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves
Nature Fault Punishment Deserves
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Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

Society Fullness People Create
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

History About Parts Story
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My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.

Purpose Art Serve Indict
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Replace Careful End Always
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Democracy Educated Grounded Healthy
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An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

Against Side Artist Emperor
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Story Part Work History
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

Gender Citizens People Fair
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Neck Around Time Ankle
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Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

Country Leave Without Off
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Centuries Day Enough Just
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

Story Far Begin Surface
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Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

Existing Gains Imagine Journey
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Reality Order Create Art
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Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

Leaders Because Should Nigeria
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Blunt Refusal Tests Integrity
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Repair Year Take Done
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