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"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that it is poetry."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: poetry
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"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over."
— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."
— William Butler Yeats

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"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: inspirational
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"Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted."
— Emily Dickinson (The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)

tags: art, haunted, house, nature
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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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"A word is dead when it's been said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: words
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"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
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"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
— Mark Twain

tags: death, life
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"I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one."
— A.E. Housman

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"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
— William Butler Yeats

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"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. "
— William Butler Yeats

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"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.""
— William Butler Yeats

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"Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet."
— William Butler Yeats

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"Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party."
— William Butler Yeats

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"We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it."
— William Butler Yeats

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"What can be explained is not poetry."
— William Butler Yeats

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"The problem with some people is that when they're not drunk, they're sober."
— William Butler Yeats

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"Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned
By those that are not entirely beautiful"
— William Butler Yeats

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"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
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"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."
— William Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew)

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"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

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"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
— William Shakespeare

tags: inspirational
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"My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light."
— Edna St. Vincent Millay (Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay)

tags: fig, first
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"Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb."
— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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"You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that."
— Edna St. Vincent Millay

tags: poet
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"pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn."
— Edna St. Vincent Millay (The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay)

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"I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes."
— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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"I shall die but that is all that I shall do for death."
— Edna St.Vincent Millay (Selected Poems)

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"A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him."
— Edna St. Vincent Millay

tags: publishing, writers, writing
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"Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb."
— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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"And he whose soul is flat -- the sky
Will cave in on him by and by."
— Edna St. Vincent Millay (Renascence And Other Poems)

tags: profound
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"How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?"
— Carson McCullers (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)

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" But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today."
— Carson McCullers (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)

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