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#1

“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: poetry

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#2

“Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real.”
― Tupac Shakur

tags: inspirational

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#3

“It was at that age
that poetry came in search of me.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

tags: neruda, poetry

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#4

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

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#5

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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#6

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters

tags: poetry, power-of-words

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#7

“I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
― Kurt Cobain

tags: inspirational

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#8

“Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.”
― Jose Rizal

tags: freedom, liberty

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#9

“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: melancholy

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#10

“Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.”
― Jim Carroll

tags: afterlife, conscience, death, ghosts, poetry

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#11

“Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster”
― Mario Puzo

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#12

“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: forgiveness, vigilance

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#13

“One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.”
― Jose Rizal

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#14

“Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

[News conference, April 21 1961]”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: defeat, leadership, responsibility, victory

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#15

“You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

tags: inspiration

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#16

“Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)”
― Julius Caesar

tags: conqueror, imperialism, rome, war

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#17

“The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

tags: gangster

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#18

“Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.”
― Mario Puzo

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#19

“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: civic-duty, civic-responsibility, inaugural-address, politics

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#20

“Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”
― Mario Puzo

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#21

“There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated”
― Tupac Shakur

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#22

“You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: activism

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#23

“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: hate, love, religion, sin, sinners

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#24

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: love

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#25

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: challanges

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#26

“The future starts today, not tomorrow.”
― Pope John Paul II

tags: carpe-diem, future, present, time

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#27

“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.”
― Robert Graves

tags: robert-graves

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#28

“You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon's Memoirs

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#29

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

tags: poetry

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#30

“Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: money, religion

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