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Love is a flame to set the will on fire

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People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.

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I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

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It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.

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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

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Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low.

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It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April's in the West wind, and daffodils.

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Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

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Humans consist of body, mind and imagination. Our bodies are faulty, our minds untrustworthy, but our imagination has made us remarkable.

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My road leads me seawards To the white dipping sails.

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Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French.

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When the last sea is sailed and last shallow charted, When the last field is reaped and the last harvest stored, When the last fire is out and the last guest departed Grant the last prayer that I pray, Be good to me, O Lord.

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Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

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To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.

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Man cannot call the brimming instant back; Time's an affair of instants spun to days; If man must make an instant gold, or black, Let him, he may; but Time must go his ways. Life may be duller for an instant's blaze. Life's an affair of instants spun to years, Instants are only cause of all these tears.

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Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

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Lord, give to me who are old and rougher The things that little children suffer, And let keep bright and undefiled The young years of the little child.

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Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

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The days that make us happy make us wise

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Heaven to me's a fair blue stretch of sky, Earth's jest a dusty road.

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