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For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.


Catullus

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ARISTOTLE A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
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Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
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DOROTHY PARKER I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value ...
JOHN BURROUGHS The human race has come such a long way in such a short time and every day I wake I feel blessed tha...
TERRY LANDER There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet...
JAMES FENTON If a man can save himself, there is no need for a Saviour.
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SELENA GóMEZ Spread love. Hug the people you care about and make sure they know that you care and appreciate them...
GERMANY KENT Had Satan not set himself in opposition to God . . . there would have been no need for God to send H...
BILLY GRAHAM There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.
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DOROTHY PARKER Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman...
SAMUEL LOVER Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample, Catull...
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JOHN PIPER Be aware that the more often a child hears the word no, the greater his need to say no himself.
CATHY RINDNER TEMPELSMAN There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scie...
ROBERT OPPENHEIMER There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scient...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose ...
WILLIAM H. HUNT What brought you here, may not keep you here
SOTONYE ANGA The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has n...
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GARY F EVANS... No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There ...
ADRIENNE RICH Be warm, but pure; be amorous, but be chaste.
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CRAIG GROESCHEL My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
DEYTH BANGER Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.
JAMES CASH PENNEY You must long for God more than normal. You must be willing to live to give, not live to gain.
CRAIG GROESCHEL A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA Tear him for his bad verses.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scienti...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER There is either where we've been or where we hope to go, here is where we are, take a moment to give...
DENNIS BARTON If you are not there for other people, do not expect them to be there for you. In many a case one mi...
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T. S. ELIOT The need for devotion to something outside ourselves is even more profound than the need for compani...
ROSS PARMENTER Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What...
MAX STIRNER A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would l...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as...
MAX EHRMANN The Championships will be totally unaffected and there is no need for concern.
IAN RITCHIE When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself...
GERRIT SMITH There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
AESCHYLUS There is no sickness worse for me that words that to be kind must lie.
AESCHYLUS Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
L. RON HUBBARD Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
L. RON HUBBARD For the light to exist, there must be the dark. For the Force, there must be balance.
GREG RUCKA The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
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URSULA K. LE GUIN A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove ...
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SEAN CONNERY The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able t...
ERICH FROMM Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
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A.G. RIDDLE But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.
URSULA K. LE GUIN To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

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CATULLUS Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred,
Then another thousand, then a second hundred,
The...
CATULLUS What a woman says to her lover should be written on air or swift water.
CATULLUS It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
CATULLUS So a maiden, while she remains untouched, remains dear to her own; but when she has lost her chaste ...
CATULLUS I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness
CATULLUS There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh
CATULLUS If a man can take pleasure in recalling the kindnesses he has done.
CATULLUS O gods, grant me this in return for my piety.
CATULLUS Poor Catullus, cease your folly and give up for lost what you see is lost.
CATULLUS Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
CATULLUS My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight
CATULLUS And forever, brother, hail and farewell!
CATULLUS I hate and love - wherefore I cannot tell, but by my tortures know the fact too well
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CATULLUS What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water.
CATULLUS Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr's sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
CATULLUS I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not...
CATULLUS Rise up, lads, the evening is coming. The evening star is just raising his long-awaited light in hea...
CATULLUS Let us live my Lesbia, and love, and value at one farthing all the talk of crabbed old men
CATULLUS No more thy pains for others' welfare spend, Nor think by service to attach a friend: All are ungrat...
CATULLUS Now he is treading that dark road to the place from which they say no one has ever returned.
CATULLUS My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that ...
CATULLUS Most wretched men are cradled to poetry by wrong: they learn in suffering what they teach in song
CATULLUS Most wretched men are cradled to poetry by wrong: they learn in suffering what they teach in song
CATULLUS soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit breuis lux,
nox est perpetu...
CATULLUS I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask.
I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented...
CATULLUS I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tor...
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CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) A day without laughter is a day wasted.
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CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. [Lat., Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.]
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CAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS