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She was poetry written in pen, scribbled and scrawled again and again.
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Oh, we talked about it. The coaches talked to us and let us know we couldn't let that happen again.
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The struggling poet and writer
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I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Isn't that great? We can start debating again. We can start theorizing again.
KYLE JOHNSON
Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
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Rise Again
One goal goes by the wayside
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Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
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Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again
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As long as you're still alive, you always have the chance to start again.
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I enjoyed what I was doing and I'll start doing it again in a week.
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I was concerned it was going to start again,
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How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
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We'll start building that tradition again.
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I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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If I try at first and I fail I try again, if I have tried a thousand times and still fail, I will tr...
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Y'ought to hyeah dat gal a-warblin' Robins, la'ks an' all dem things Heish de mouffs an' hides...
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
The Lord had a job for me, but I had so much to do, I said, "You get somebody else--or wait till I...
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With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe...
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With it all, I cannot help being overwhelmed by self-doubts. I hope there is something worthy in my ...
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But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.
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When you play a team like St. X, you have to play your best, ... St. X is just a great team, so if w...
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy...
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, when his wing is bruised and his bosom sore; when he beats h...
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A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy t...
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

روح روز تابستانی و
نفسِ گل سرخی،
تابستان اما س�...
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorde...
ANNA AKHMATOVA
In this story
I am the poet
You're the poetry.
ARZUM UZUN
We'll start to strike again next week.
DANILO JORQUERA
I am not a saint; I am a sinner. I want to sin again and
again and again.
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I say scrap the IRS. Let's start all over again.
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But I want it to start operating again quickly. It should not become a playground.
MAHMUD ABBAS
I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'
IMELDA MAY
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.
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I've known Laurence Fishburne for about twenty years.
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It is not too late to start again
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the r...
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As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of...
SALVATORE QUASIMODO
Do it again.
Play it again. Sing it again. Read it again. Write it again. Sketch it again. Rehe...
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
A. A. MILNE
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
A.A. MILNE
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There are no real start-overs, only start-from-heres.
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People that I've talked to today, their question seems to be: Will he quit again?
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I don't need extra hours to clear my mind. I just need to stop taking everything seriously and drown...
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here we were again , always saying good-bye
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one th...
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEI
I never blame other people for my misfortunes, all i do is pick myself up and start again..
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years...
LAURENCE BINYON
I was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1948 but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elem...
LAURENCE YEP
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
LAURENCE PETER
"He shall not die, by God," cried by uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's cha...
LAURENCE STERNE
Our armies swore terrible in Flanders.
LAURENCE STERNE
It was a toast, not a roast.
LAURENCE MEYER
I've always lived above my income. When I was earning $100 a week, I spent $200... always borrowing ...
LAURENCE HARVEY
I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to...
LAURENCE STERNE
There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse
LAURENCE STERNE
I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN
Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences w...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN
Over the course of the millennia, all these multitudes of ancestors, generation upon generation, hav...
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
There is a temptation to take advantage. Just like any other aspect of society, there are the good (...
LAURENCE GODFREY
So, if this were indeed my Final Hour, these would be my words to you. I would not claim to pass on ...
MARGARET LAURENCE
When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight...
LAURENCE OLIVIER
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
LAURENCE OLIVIER
I don't believe for a minute that the proof of God's existence is achieved. My faith prohibits me fr...
LAURENCE COSSé
I should have no objection to this method, but that I think it must smell too strong of the lamp.
LAURENCE STERNE
It's something he learned as a bodybuilder. You get up on stage and twist and turn your body to alwa...
LAURENCE LEAMER
Does American Media have the right to have that impact in the election? ... The big question with Gi...
LAURENCE LEAMER
the integrity of the electoral process.
LAURENCE LEAMER
I don't know how many paintings there are-probably thousands. They're everywhere, and it's almost im...
LAURENCE NEUFELD
The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War star...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN
Well, where am I really? I'm 200 feet off the ground in a manmade maze.
LAURENCE GONZALES
A mother can read all the child-rearing books and can subscribe to any theory of parenting, but what...
LAURENCE SHAMES
There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you g...
LAURENCE FOX
For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies
LAURENCE STERNE
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplacea...
MARGARET LAURENCE
Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which mo...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for con...
LAURENCE STERNE
I shall go the way of the open sea, To the lands I knew before you came, And the cool ocean breezes ...
LAURENCE HOPE
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top o...
LAURENCE STERNE
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which...
LAURENCE STERNE
Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the...
LAURENCE SHAMES
Strange, weird things that no man may say, things Humanity hides away; secretly done, catch the ligh...
LAURENCE HOPE
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
LAURENCE HOPE
Or, pale dispensers of my Joys and Pains, holding the doors of Heaven and of Hell.
LAURENCE HOPE
I cannot forget that, just as my life was touching its fullest flower, love came and destroyed it al...
LAURENCE HOPE
Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, / Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?
LAURENCE HOPE
Why is love such a sorrowful thing, this I never could understand; passion and pain are linked toget...
LAURENCE HOPE