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5714 Poet Quotes

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
Hard He Himself Unable
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Superior people never make long visits.

Long Make Never People
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Human Human Nature Middle Nature
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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Appraisal Appraise Blunder Cannot
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Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Noun Poetry
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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

Contagion Make Makes Sickness
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My father used to say superior people never make long visits.

Father Long Make Never
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If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Artist Doubt Interest No Interest
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There never was a war that was not inward.

Inward Never War
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Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

Beauty Dust Everlasting Time
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

Bondage Impatience Independence
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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

Been Belief Captive Free
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Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

Doubt Everything Explains Nothing
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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

Always Deepest Feeling Itself
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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
Calling Category Except I See
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If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

Appears Cross I Can Think
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It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.

Back Cannot Critic Cruel
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I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

Create Darkness Echo Fight
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It's becoming very much like 1979 again

Again Becoming Like Much
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I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.

Bay Before Cleaned Die
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

Artist Bow His Imagination
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Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

Drawn Evidence Inference Leave
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Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.

Built Copied Hearts Men
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The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

Again Beaten Books Dream
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Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Disappointment Suspense Than Worse
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Affliction Bliss Brother Brothers
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Sure Sure Thing Thing Uncertainty
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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

Brass Collar Gentleman Him
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Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

Countless Inhumanity Makes Man
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

Adorn Our Violets Wet
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Dare Fear Honest Labor
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

Always Character Complaint Cowardly
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The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

Before Friend Us Wide
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And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

About Begins Creation Lords
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Critics Fame Paths Those
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

Armor Heavy More Protects
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Defensive Existence Favourite Mind
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Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

About Cant Characters Decorum
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I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.

Affection Extremely Often Part
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There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.

Am Anyone Arts Falsehood
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I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.

Am Daily Foresee I Am
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The joy of my heart is to 'study men, their manners, and their ways,' and for this darling object I cheerfully sacrifice every other consideration.

Cheerfully Onsideration Darling Every
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There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters.

Alive Am Anything Country
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There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

Conscience Frame Man Me
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The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.

Ambition Continue Deserve Exalted
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In my conscience, I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified.
Believe Conscience Fire Has-Been
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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

Corrupt Cynics Equally Everybody
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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Become Changing Conservative Idea
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Belief is the death of intelligence.

Belief Death Intelligence
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Only the madman is absolutely sure.
Absolutely Madman Only Sure
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