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Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we wo…
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The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them. Giacomo Leopardi By the age of 16, Italian po…
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If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. Anna Akhmatova Russian poet Anna Akhmatova was born Anna …
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Patience is a conquering virtue. Geoffrey Chaucer April 23, 1374: On this day, Edward III granted English poet Geoffrey Chaucer a gallon of wine dail…
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Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand. Algernon Charles Swinburne Decadent British poet Algernon Charles Swinburne (born April 5, 1837) …
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Without movement there is no Life...We should use our energy to the fullest. Ai Qing Celebrated Chinese poet Ai Qing (born March 27, 1910) was impris…
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Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations. Lawrence Ferlinghetti Happy 96th birthday, Lawrence Ferlinghetti! In 1953, the poet founde…
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In the summerI stretch out on the shoreAnd think of you. Had I told the seaWhat I felt for you,It would have left its shores,Its shells,Its fish,And …
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You might as well answer the door, my child,the truth is furiously knocking. Lucille Clifton Celebrated poet Lucille Clifton (died February 13, 2010)…
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Your thorns are the best part of you. Marianne Moore Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Marianne Moore (died February 5, 1972) was also a sports fan who thr…
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A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning. James Dickey Former U.S. Poet Laureate James Dickey (born February…
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I am a tiny seashellthat has secretly drifted ashoreand carries the sound of the oceansurging through its body. Edward Hirsch Happy 65th birthday, Ed…
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Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, t…
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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself Khalil Gibran The third-bestselling poet in the wor…
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I have not learned how often ICan win, can love, but choose to die. W.D. Snodgrass Poet W.D. Snodgrass (born January 5, 1926) came of age in an era s…
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We two have paddled in the stream,from morning sun till dine;But seas between us broad have roaredsince days of long ago. Robert Burns Scottish poet …