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5714 Poet Quotes

But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.

Words Vain Feeble part
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There is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.

Harm Afraid Fear Master
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There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator.

No slave Creature Creator
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Butterfly Counts Enough Moments
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Gray Hairs Hold Signs
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I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.

Repent Ignorance God Man
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If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Gem Flower Gift Heart
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We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

Unable Tell people Need Something else
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Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.

Big enough Minds Hang Prayer
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We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We have a body.

Soul Have Body
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But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectly For pain and hope and all that led or drove Us back into the bosom of thy love.

Believe Lord Hope Thank
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I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.

Help Beautiful God Thought
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For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds

Great love Most wretched Heart
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I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!

More world Doors Many years
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It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.

Man Obedient Master Word
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The best preparation for the future, is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

Best preparation Future Done
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It is the heart that is unsure of its God that is afraid to laugh.

Heart God Afraid Laugh
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Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed.
Beautiful Beloved Kind Destroyed
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God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.

God finger Mold Loveliness
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We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
Die daily Happy Life
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I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.
Rose Death Sadness Life
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Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

Man Love Fear Wild beasts
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Wherever there is anything to love, there is beauty in some form.
Wherever Anything Love
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Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.

Beautiful God created Sin
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Distilled Language Most Poetry
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I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

Details Explore Hinge Intimate
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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

Around Began College Entire
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I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

Always Away Child Childish
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I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
Any Be Because Could
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I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

Always Away Book Dream
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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

Asking Book Choose Entirely
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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

About Because Elements Language
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It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

Need Schools Sometimes Things
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Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

About Ever Gesture Good
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My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

Chemist Could Ends Exciting
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I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

About Appointed Because Been
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I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.
After Amazing Another Happened
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People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

Asking Country Even Found
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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Children Come Curriculum Early
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It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
About Being Combination Exciting
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

Advise Congress Distinct Duties
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Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

Arts Been Every Go
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You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

Before Evidence Existed Front
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Earth Effort Endless Heaven
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Child Discouraged Every God
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Age considers; youth ventures.

Age Considers Ventures Youth
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Difficulty Disturb Every Ghost
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Bird Dark Dawn Faith
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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Freedom Full Gain Paid
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Child Dismiss First First Time
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