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5714 Poet Quotes

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
Child Candy Library Best
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Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, ‘I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway.

Nature Mercy Snow Bikini
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I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Trust Love African Careful
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I never have written every day. When I’m writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

Sanity Pretend Book Writing
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My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Life Great Dance Song
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’ at total strangers.

Smile People Love Home
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We are only as blind as we want to be.
Only Want Blind Are
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You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one’s own self.

End Forgive Other Real
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Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

Grace Lake Water Door
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We are not just flesh and blood. And our hungers are not going to be set aside as just flesh and blood.

Flesh Blood Hunger Set
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If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Life Save Own First
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Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

Listen Hear Voice God
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A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Heart Hidden Seek God
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

Mother Always Intolerant Ignorance
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Cancer Host Anger Fire
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You listen with interest. That gives some sense of confidence to the speaker.

Listen Interest Sense Confidence
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I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me – I didn’t know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn’t know it then, and I know more now.

Poem Back Write Surprise
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I’ve learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.

Learn Great Gift Give
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I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.

Life Give Second Chance
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We are here to love each other. That is why you are alive. That is what life is for.

Love Alive Life Each
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Fine Line Life Greedy
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You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Total Everything Heard Seen
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Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

People Grow Agem Space Parking
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Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.

Open Eye Beauty Around
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I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

Hero Person Intent Better
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I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

Believe Art Full Life
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If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?

Long Enough Over War
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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.

Encourage Courtesy Accept Nothing
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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Pure Life Realize Art
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We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

Spend Hour Adoring Wise
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You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.

Forgive Much Stand Mean
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I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love.

Love Able Grateful Been
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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Soul Liberate Benefit Among
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First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.

Love Better Falling Least
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When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.

Universe Brave Fun Intelligent
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It’s very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

Affair Hard Adult Respect
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When people see the laughing face, even if they’re jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself.

Laughing Face Jealous People
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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Virus Happen Time Love
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I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don’t mean sentimentality, I don’t mean mush. I mean that idea, that human beings are more alike than we are different.

Believe Scent Love Different
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It’s hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.

Truth Gain Lose Hard
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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

Sacrifice Great Want Able
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If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it’s more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

Translate Another Race Fall
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If you want to liberate someone, love them. Not be in love with them – that’s dangerous.

Liberate Dangerous Someone Love
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Finally Die Respect Self
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Child Remain Grow Artist
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Truth Realize Enable Art
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Wash Life Soul Away
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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Seen Have Could Other
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Die Off Tomorrow Left
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When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Child Soldier General Monk
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