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#1

“An oak tree and a rosebush grew,
Young and green together,
Talking the talk of growing things-
Wind and water and weather.
And while the rosebush sweetly bloomed
The oak tree grew so high
That now it spoke of newer things-
Eagles, mountain peaks and sky.
"I guess you think you're pretty great,"
The rose was heard to cry,
Screaming as loud as it possibly could
To the treetop in the sky.
"And now you have no time for flower talk,
Now that you've grown so tall."
"It's not so much that I've grown," said the tree,
"It's just that you've stayed so small.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: poetry

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#2

“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”
― Christopher Morley

tags: poetry

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#3

“The wind is the moon's imagination wandering.”
― Saul Williams

tags: poetry

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#4

“I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.”
― Frank O'Hara, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

tags: poetry

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#5

“Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: poet, poetry, words

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#6

“Some people react physically to the magic of poetry, to the moments, that is, of authentic revelation, of the communication, the sharing, at its highest level...A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
― Dylan Thomas

tags: poetry

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#8

“For books are more than books, they are the life
The very heart and core of ages past,
The reason why men lived and worked and died,
The essence and quintessence of their lives.”
― Amy Lowell

tags: books, poetry

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#9

“Every beginning has an end and every end has a new beginning, don't worry, broken soul, life will one day come to an end. ”
― Santosh Kalwar

tags: love, poetry

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#10

“When you write about what you dream, you become a writer.

When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by a curse.”
― Amal Saleh, Poetry Eyes

tags: curse, poetry, writer, writing

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#11

“[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.”
― Dylan Thomas

tags: poetry

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#12

“I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say
'whom I am
constantly shocking”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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#13

“If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

tags: famous-quotations, famous-quotes, love, mysticism, passion, poetry, quotes-about-love, relationships, romance, roses, spirituality, valentine-s-day

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#14

“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs
for their religion--
I have shuddered at it,
I shudder no more.
I could be martyred for my religion.
Love is my religion
and I could die for that.
I could die for you.
My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.”
― John Keats

tags: love, martyrdom, self-sacrifice

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#15

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats

tags: art, depression, growth, life, pain, suffering, wisdom

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#16

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
― John Keats

tags: books, wine

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#17

“I want a brighter word than bright”
― John Keats

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#18

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

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#19

“When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

tags: romance

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#20

“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: love, romance, romantic, sentimentality

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#21

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes

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#22

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire

tags: disagreement, evelyn-beatrice-hall, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, misattributed-to-voltaire

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#23

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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#24

“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
― Judy Blume

tags: books, censor, communication, freedom, philosophy

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#25

“I'm single because I was born that way.”
― Mae West

tags: bachelorhood, choice, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, self-determination, singleness, singles

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#26

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: freedom, government, politics

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#27

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: freedom, law, morality, rules

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#28

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight

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#29

“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: censorship, freedom, writers-block, writing

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#30

“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression

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#31

“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
― Jean Paul Sartre

tags: freedom

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