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5714 Poet Quotes

… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…

Truest Language Process Living element
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Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

Break Love Stronger Granted
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To change your language you must change your life.

Change Language Life
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We read, we travel, we become.

We Read Travel Become
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Time is the metre, memory the only plot.

Time Metre Memory Plot
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.

Silence Mark Wisdom
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Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.
Own heart Men's Opinions True honor
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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Advice Softer Deeper Mind
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Language Human mind Past Future
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart

What Comes Heart Goes
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

Man Great Poet Philosopher
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No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Mind Well-organized Deficient Humor
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

Deep thinking Man Truth Revelation
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Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.

Prose Words Best Order
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Little is taught by contest or dispute, everything by sympathy and love.

Little Taught Sympathy Love
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He prayeth best who loveth best, all things both great and small.

Prayeth Loveth Great Small
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that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith

Willing Disbelief Moment Faith
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

He Christianity Truth Loving
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Common sense Degree World Wisdom
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

Happiness Life Smile Compliment
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly

Politics Begins Fear Folly
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Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Understand Writer's Ignorance
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

People Humor Degree Genius
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O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.

Receive Give Life alone Nature
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Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.

Men Think Worth Value
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Love Mother Heart Heavenly father
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

Imagination Living power Human Perception
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Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

Earth Voices Praises God
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

Doing Evil Avoid Cannot
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.

Within Today Tomorrow Walking
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

You Thinking Man Purpose
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Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.
Painting Intermediate Thought Thing
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Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

Happiness Virtue Truth Foundation
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Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.

Love Admiration Qualities Action
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

Christianity Speculation Life Philosophy
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Look for a lovely thing and you will find it, it is not far, it never will be far

Look Lovely thing Find Far
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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

No one Worth Possessing
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Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.

Love Never think Escape Sorrow
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Only by love is life made real.

Love Life Real
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Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

Time Kind Friend Old
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Oh Earth, you gave me all I have, I love you, I love you, - oh what have IThat I can give you in return - Except my body after I die?

Earth Love Body Die
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It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.

Strange Heart Years Wise
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If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

You have The words A chance You'll find
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I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

A case Poems changed The world People's understanding
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Behavior that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.

Behavior That's admired The path Power among
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All I know is a door into the dark.

I know A door The dark
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So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracles And cures and healing wells.

So hope Great Sea change Revenge
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Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.

Strange Huge nothing We fear
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How perilous is it to choose not to love the life we’re shown?

How perilous To choose To love The life
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intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate.

Intelligence Is intuitive Needn't learn To love
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