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And the world said, Child, you will not be missed. You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road Your death is a table in a book. You had our wit, our heart was sealed to you: Man is the judgment of the world.
Randall Jarrell
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
Matsuo Basho
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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
Oscar Wilde
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Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.
Sherman Alexie
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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
Juvenal
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For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup For Christ, Gethsemane.
Don Marquis
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Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting.
Elijah Fenton
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In chambers deep, Where waters sleep, What unknown treasures pave the floor.
Edward Young
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God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.
Ernest Hemingway
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Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment
Galway Kinnell
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All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.
Saint Augustine
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When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.
Thomas Moore
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Is there not a way by which the man who can think can be enabled to have time to think?
Georgia Douglas Johnson
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Love is something that never cared to learn how to judge anybody.
Sri Chinmoy
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Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts, they paint watercolors of perception.
Diane Ackerman
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Experience teaches, it is true but she never teaches in time.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.
Rumi
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Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast Is that portentous phrase, I told you so.
Lord Byron
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What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
Charles Baudelaire
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Now the Earth's face is lathered white with shaving soap It's a long time till the razor once more makes its face smooth and fresh and green.
Gunvor Hofmo
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Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
John Milton
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