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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? Walt Whitman
Me You Speak Meet Passing Should Stranger Why Desire
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep. Walt Whitman
Time Me First Before Nothing Else Has-Been Looks First Time Am Been Did Cannot Mean Awake Sleep
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. Walter Savage Landor
Music Art God Man Gift Earth Given Only Take Heaven
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. Wendell Berry
Hope Nature Survival Our Earth Only Remains Renewal Cherish Legitimate Foster
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. William Blake
Wisdom Folly Hours Clock Measure Measured
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist. William Blake
Thoughts Man Mind Never His Artist Heaven Who
Opposition is true friendship. William Blake
Friendship True Friendship True Opposition
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. William Butler Yeats
Love Truth Old Wine Before Mouth Eye Shall Dating Know Die Grow
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. William Butler Yeats
Soul Stronger Before Energy Every Trial Moral Spirit Weathered Temptation New Makes Than Represents Endured Fund Conquering Right
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come. William Wordsworth
Clouds Birth Our Entire Come Glory Trailing Forgetfulness Forgetting Utter Sleep
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. E. E. Cummings
Living Almost Beyond Said May Apart Far Income
Lying is done with words and also with silence. Adrienne Rich
Silence Words Lying Also Done
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard. Aeschylus
God Man Tries Hand Lends Hard Who Helping Helping Hand
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot. Alexander Pope
You Men Unknown Must Proposed Taught Forgot Them Things
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction. Audre Lorde
Work Destruction Living Our Recognize Must Rather Celebration Than Difference Reason Growth
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. Ben Jonson
Success Confidence Reputation Ruins Negligence Had Industry Accuracy Which Produces Raised
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. Charles Baudelaire
Wife Wine Bottle Sweetheart
Genius is childhood recalled at will. Charles Baudelaire
Genius Will Childhood Recalled
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. Dante Alighieri
Fire Beauty Heat Cannot Eternal Separated
As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else. Dylan Thomas
Life Love Words Real Life Nothing Live Increased Else Must More More And More Fact Writer Knew Until Read Always Real Verse Any In Fact Them Means
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. Edgar Allan Poe
Cause Weakness Seeking Above Atrocity Between Disaster Am Effect Establish Sequence
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike. Edwin Markham
You Meet Strike Alike Be Prepared Bear Days Hammer Anvil Them Your Prepared Ever
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. Emily Dickinson
Smile Luck Earned Expensive Toil Fortune Chance
Until we are all free, we are none of us free. Emma Lazarus
Free Until None Us
There is the sky, which is all men's together. Euripides
Together Sky Men Which
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. Geoffrey Chaucer
Wise Women Wife Be Brave Rich Obedient Husbands Generous Bed Brave Six Want Lively Things Desire
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