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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. Khalil Gibran
Work Love You Better Distaste Only Leave Cannot Should Your
Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying. Langston Hughes
Tired You Writing Wonderful Somewhere Staying Like Go Get Travelling
The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror. Langston Hughes
Eyes People Jewish People Both Know Looked Supremacy Terror Meaning Meaning Of Jewish
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Death Poet Own High Constantly Above High Wire Risking Wire He Absurdity Heads Like Performs Audience Making Climbs His Whenever Rhyme
The best prophet of the future is the past. Lord Byron
Future Best Past Prophet
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything. Lord Byron
Me Nothing Doubt Everything Shake Something Off Deny Short Cannot Pagan
Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. Lord Byron
Jealousy Enemies Indeed Spice Must Something Self Generally Never Because Always Friends May Lovers Speculations
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. Lord Byron
Truth Strange Truth Is Always Than Fiction Stranger
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. Louis Aragon
Life Truth Conflict People Darkness Light Black Black And White Opposites White Relation Our Pungent Intoxicating Clash Only Terms Make Exist Error Where Which Meaningful Zone
Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall. Matthew Arnold
Waiting Fall Heaven Spark
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike. Maya Angelou
Great Heart Human Heart Resource Alike Draw Tells More Than Same Human Artists Which Us
In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?' Maya Angelou
Work You Try Say All My Work Given Make Sour May Lemon Lemons Why Why Not Dozen Load
I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings. Maya Angelou
Me Differences Other Allow Man-Made Any Human Refuse Human Beings Separate Beings
Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more. Maya Angelou
Success Nothing More Like Get Just Little Succeeds Then
I believe that every person is born with talent. Maya Angelou
Believe Every I Believe I Believe That Born Talent Person
The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free. Maya Angelou
Truth Truth Is Free Everybody No-One Until Us
A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die. Nikki Giovanni
You People Naked Until Because Without Got Go Lot Die Refuse Want Happen Things Guarantee
We love because it's the only true adventure. Nikki Giovanni
Love Only True Adventure Because
Nature is a petrified magic city. Novalis
Nature City Magic Petrified
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. Oliver Goldsmith
Law Men Rich Rule Poor
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been! Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sky Seen Autumn Harmony Summer Could Through Had Been Heard Which Luster
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Beautiful Mirror Distorted Poetry Makes Which
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ignorance Our More Study Discover
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Joy Will Wine Other Drunken Taste Deep Tonight
To be able to say how much love, is love but little. Petrarch
Love Love Is Say Able How How Much Little Much
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. Rabindranath Tagore
Time Morning First Yesterday Say See Name First Time Child Newborn Dismiss
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