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5714 Poet Quotes

The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.
Stars Task Taught Read
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Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless

Dreams Have Wind Night
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Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?

Where Free Homeland Body
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And if happiness should surprise you again, do not mention its previous betrayal. Enter into the happiness, and burst.

Happiness Surprise Mention Betrayal
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I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Homeland

Learnt Worthy Blood Break
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She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it.

Love You Metaphors Poet
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I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets.

Language Transforms Steel Spirit
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We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

Suffer Incurable Malady Hope
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The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.

Poem Hands Run Stories
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Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

Life Defined Opposite Death
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One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.

One-day Poet Depend Water
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I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold

Love Women Desires Horses
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And you became like the coffee, In the deliciousness, and the bitterness and the addiction.

Coffee Deliciousness Bitterness Addiction
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For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.

Essential Poet Have Toast
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We journey towards a home that does not halo our head with a special sun. Mythical women applaud us. A sea for us, a sea against us.
Journey Home Halo Head
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We Do as the ascendants to GOD ; the prisoners and the unemployed Do , we Forget the Pain & Raise Hope

Ascendants God Prisoners Unemployed
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I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

Learned Dismantled Words Draw
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I know who opens the door to the jasmine tree as it makes our dreams blossom for the evening's guests.

Opens Door Tree Dreams
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Please take your time. I want you to kill me slowly so I can write my last poem to my wife's heart. They laughed, and took from me only the words dedicated to my wife's heart.

Time Poem Kill Slowly
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May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!

May Poetry God Name
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In a world that has no heaven the earth becomes an abyss. And the poem is one of its consolation prizes. One of the qualities of the winds, north or south

World Abyss Heaven Earth
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A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are open to tempting conquest.
Poet Need Trouble Leis
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I leave the other side of my life where it wants to stay, and follow the remainder of my life in search of the other side of it.
Leave Life Stay Remainder
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No one has arrived. Leave me there as you would leave a myth with any person who sees you until he cries and rushes into himself, afraid of happiness.

Arrived Leave Person Cries
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This peace will leave us as a cluster of dust

Peace Leave Cluster Dust
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Words are a homeland.

Words Homeland
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Perhaps death is a metaphor to remind us of a secret of life we failed to notice.

Death Metaphor Remind Secret
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Had I known you, I would have possessed you, and had you known me, you would have possessed me. But then you and I would not be

Have Possessed You Me
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The long road has drained me of all feelings and expectations. I don’t feel a thing or expect anything now.

Long Road Drained Feeling
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No night is long enough for us to dream twice.

Night Enough Dream Twice
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The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.

Germ Story New Simple
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Talent What You Possess
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They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Lose Your Mind Grow
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It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.

Fear Dependent Young Child
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I never cease to be amazed why some of my friends became famous and others, just as talented, didn't. I've come to suspect it's a matter of wanting fame or not, and those who don't want it, don't get it.

Never Cease Amazed Friends
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The Purpose of Time is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once

Purpose Time Prevent Happening
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In poetry, only emotion endures.

Poetry Emotion Endures
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Adult Age Am Another
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Reality simply consists of different points of view.

Consists Different Points Reality
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

Across Back Borders Boxes
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Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

Credentials Establish Heroes Heroic
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Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Better Means Optimism Pessimism
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Anomaly Born Leader Man
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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Day Dirt End End Of The Day
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Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

After Been Caught Consequences
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I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Come Finally Hope Human
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A word after a word after a word is power.
After Power Word
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Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Am Because Being Capable
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If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Canada Illness Mental Mental Illness
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

Divorce Less Like Survive
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