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By blood a king, in heart a clown. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Heart King Clown Blood
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. Aristophanes
War Walls Enemies Men Building Sense Lesson Cities Foes High Learn Ships Friends Often
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. Audre Lorde
Inspirational Nothing Deliberate Am Afraid
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. Bertolt Brecht
Man Book Hungry Weapon Reach
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart. Carol Ann Duffy
Life News You Heart Memory People Everyday Life Everyday Say Find People Say Poetry Just Bus Your
Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Forgiveness People Trouble Completed Layers Because Been Singular Sitting Taught Act Many Seasons
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. Delmore Schwartz
Time School Fire Learn Burn Which
Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable. Diane Ackerman
Nature Despite Our Hurricane Unpredictable Remains Reminder Most Season Technologies Brings Humbling
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me. Edgar Allan Poe
Me Will Criticism Nothing Foe Shall Purpose Absolutely Friend Just Turn Bold
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' Edgar Allan Poe
Art Nature Man Soul Imitation Define Perceive Through Sacred Mere Veil Term Name Call However Were Very Accurate Artist Senses Reproduction Should
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them. Edgar Allan Poe
Those Puns Has-Been Able Most Said Least Been Dislike Them Who Utter
Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place. Edmund Spenser
Great Sunshine Made Angel Face Eye Shady Heaven Place Bright Her
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. Emily Dickinson
Love Hope You Too Birds Saves Economical Going Heaven
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Emma Lazarus
Me Tired Free Give Give Me Masses Yearning Poor Breathe Your
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm. Euripides
Wind Somewhere Must Misery Always Blows Human Stop Storm
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. Euripides
Time Best Age Youth Rich Best Time Poor
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. Heinrich Heine
Death Communism People Envy Language Every Possesses Hunger Understand Which Elements
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Morning Earned Some Something Sees Attempted Close Begun Task Repose Done Each Evening Each Morning Night
They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pain Stay Feel Parting Go Behind Who Suffer
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. Hilaire Belloc
Friendship Loneliness World Space Men Cold Air Outside Open Outside World Disappears Between Like Perish Left Which Then Planets Awful Utterly
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowledge Doubt Increases Only Know Accurately Little
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. John Gay
Love Will Follow Thee Flee
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. Khalil Gibran
You Joy Distress Would Abundance Days Also Pray Might Your Fullness Need
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves. Langston Hughes
People Beauty Mission Perhaps Within Artist Themselves Interpret
What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about? Lucy Larcom
Love Gossip Too Much Lose Think Too Sympathy Cares Others Worse Neighbor About Having Habit Through Self Absorb Idle Intellectually Curiosity Forget Which Interest Meaning Meaning Of Much Originate Sufferings Keeping
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile. Mahmoud Darwish
Smile Me Reality People Overcome Pain Live Harshness Scars Makes Sarcasm Helps
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