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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
Ye moon and stars, bear witness to the truth.
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.
Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.
The greater part performed achieves the less.
The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
Time, that aged nurse, Rocked me to patience.
The poppies hung Dew-dabbled on their stalks.
If you win power, remember why you wanted it.
His face was filled with broken commandments.
Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.
And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.
Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.
Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!
The planets in their station list'ning stood.
Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Man differs more from man than man from beast
He who does not hope to win has already lost.
Literature is the most beautiful of countries
I am the history of the rejection of who I am
All wish to know, but few the price will pay.
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.
Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
The river that flows in you also flows in me.
If you haven't experienced it, it's not true.
Art is a step in the known toward the unknown
Sorrow is too great to exist in small hearts.
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.
There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.
Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.
I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.
Let people hate you so long as they fear you.
Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.
They think they have God Almighty by the toe.
Words are the only bread we can really share.
Books are like chocolate. Can't eat just one.
I’m one uncontrollable hunger away from ruin.
Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
When I die I'm sure I will have a Big Funeral
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.