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5714 Poet Quotes

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Speak Fool Wise Man
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I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.

Sun Mouth Leap Darkness
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A foe to God was never true friend to man.

God Foe Never Friend
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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

Love Puny Powers Being
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.

Reality Always Foe Famous
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Background Become Clear Itself
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

Being Boy Duty Emotion
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Continuous Fiction Form Newspaper
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Age Life Little Long
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

Fear Life Loss Misfortune
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All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Best Escape Interest Only
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Fact Good Important Knowing
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Life is a sweeter, stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he is still thee to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

Admire Honor Serve Experience
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The awful penalty of success is the haunting dread of subsequent failure.
Failure Dread Success Awful
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

Write Ability Endowed Nature
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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

Sharpen Blunt Mellow Personal
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

Live Build Cheap House
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Young Think Lose Sure
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If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

Razor Skin Stray Line
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Go where your best prayers take you.

Go Best Prayers You
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Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

Nature Place Visit Home
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Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

Politics Art Possible Creativity
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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

Back Behind Bright Bring
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Faith is a passionate intuition.
Faith Intuition Passionate
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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

Day Golf Idleness Round
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Fill Heart Paper Your
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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Decorate More Often Pictures
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To begin, begin.
Begin
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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Business Crook Doing Feared
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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Believe Find Need Out
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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Nearer Oftentimes Soar Stoop
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Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

Better Divided Future Learn
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What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.

Kind People We Nurtured
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Patience is a conquering virtue.

Patience Conquering Virtue
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Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

Act Book Bring Creative
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Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

Beautiful Great Magic Potential
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You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

Allow Another Dream Everybody
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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
Art Become Hide Magic
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The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Attention Away Both Common
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Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

Always Beautiful Because Best
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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Authentic Capacity Create Endure
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The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Artist Failure Fewer Gesture
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I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

Born Came Change Collapsed
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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

Beauty Fighting More Myself
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The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

Africa Come Future About
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It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.

Agreement Either Even Felt
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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

Absolutely Best Reader Writer
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Even a fool learns something once it hits him.

Fool Learns Once Him
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When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

Begin Create Imagine Live
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I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

Beginning Begin Circle Come
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