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5714 Poet Quotes

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

Casts Height Measure Mind
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The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength

Breaks Land Loaded Sea
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Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

Discern Finite Hearts Infinite
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But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

Before Bent Carve Ever
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Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.

Away How How Much Less Little
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

Alone Beast Distinctive Finds
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So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.

Am Asleep Fall I Am
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Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.

Every Late Rome Round
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All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves

Bound June Leaves Now
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Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

Art Day Earth Else
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Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

Aim Better Failed God
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Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Beneath Foot His Make
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

Aim Fate Great Leave
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I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

End Even Fight Forgotten
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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

Autumn Beauty End Garner
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Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought

Sudden Thought
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On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

Broken Earth Heaven Perfect
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But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again

Again Baffled Begin Dry
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Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

Say Sure Those Wisest
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I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.

Book Few Fire Friends
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It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
Lifelong Quiet Race Steady
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A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Debt Made Promise Unpaid
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No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

Failure He Man Success
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Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

Avoid Easy Ending Extremes
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His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.

Bill Dull Full Had
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It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Ahead Grain Grain Of Sand Mountain
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I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

Artificial Could Criticism Dislike
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The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

Bedrock Better Down Get
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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

Any Hand Means Mother
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Burning Evidence Just Life
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Absence Caress Done Dreams
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There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Crack Everything Gets How
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When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

About Certain Repose Sense
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When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.

About Bad Feet Get
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Children Flesh Happens Like
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

Consider Feel I Feel I Think
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

Ally Battle Body Her
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

Acute Be True Compassion Despair
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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

Catastrophe Clinical Conversations Days
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To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

Beyond Condition Constitution Covenant
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
Act Like Soon Way
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Last Refuge Sense Sleeping
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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Am Does Face I Am
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Asking Barely Child He
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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

Activity Any Delicious Disagreeable
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I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
I Write Paid Pay Want
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

Always Considered Explore Minor
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We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

Fun Guitar More Much
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I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Group Jazz Liked Lyrics
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I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.

Back Come Daughter Dog
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