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5714 Poet Quotes

Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

Someday Somewhere Anywhere Find
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Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

Extend Hand Suffered Suffering
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Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.

Died Jesus Mine Sins
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I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.
Book Could Dreamed Having
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All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

Child Ever Since Something
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I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.

AGoodThing Against Discipline Energies
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I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

Could Craft Day Developing
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I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

Because Book Go Good
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I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

Just Lot Prose Published
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When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.

About Around Books Children
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A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.

About Aesthetic Children Choices
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My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

Beautiful China Cup Drink
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The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

Active Because Biggest Concern
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I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

Away Books Childhood Interested
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I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.

AllPeople Area Belongs Christians
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Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.

First FirstThing FirstTime Go
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My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

Around Father Hated He
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I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.

Basic Because Came Chords
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Don't love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth of your love today, is the depth of your wound tomorrow.
Don't Deeply Love Make
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A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.

Body Mature Romantic Tragedy
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If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.
Heart Madness Want Kill
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The most dangerous heart disease: strong memory

Disease Dangerous Heart Most
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Before you came, the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

Before Born Came Prose
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And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.
About Because Still Writing
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Days will pass, and you’ll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality.

Abandon Days Addicted Things
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Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.

Because Beyond Decided Love
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Some are like the Moon, good looking, but only when they're away from you.
Away Good Like Moon
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Don’t lose a woman that has seen your flaws and still love you.

Don't Flaws Lose Love
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In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me.

Sea Shore Summer Felt
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Life doesn't stop after losing someone, but it goes on without them differently.

After Doesn't Differently Goes
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned.

Anymore Smile Forget Name
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And I fear that my place gets taken by some other one, very lucky and not too shy, who flirts with your eyes while I’m the one who’s crazy about them.

Fear Place Taken Some
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Kill him, then hug him. Men are more faithful when dead.

Dead Him Hug Kill
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And all the countries seemed the same, That I don't see myself there, And I don't see myself here.

Country Seemed Same See
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What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems.
Ashamed Beyond Feel Poems
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Your love taught me to grieve and I have been needing, for centuries a woman to make me grieve for a woman, to cry upon her arms like a sparrow for a woman to gather my pieces like shards of broken crystal

Love Woman Taught Grieve
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Never believe a man can change a woman those men are pretenders who think that they created women from one of their ribs

Believe Change Created Woman
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Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook
Important Lantern Light More
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You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.
Create beauty Excite Sustenance Soul
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Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.

Love Stammers Stutters Best
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Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

My belly Noble Heart
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Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe
Love beauty Shadow God
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Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Speech Second possession Soul World
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Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

Earth Bless me Fecund Sacred
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The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

The poet Love Words Knot
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Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.

Writing Cheer me Soothe Spirit
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What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people,

Soul Body Artist People
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There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.
Joy Being healthy Beauty
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Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

Many things Child Bones Formed
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In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.

Secret Night Prayer Grows
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