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poetry published volume wrote
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems. Tony Buzan
poetry merit praise
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests. Jose Marti
poet company
Oh, what company good poets are!
poetry despair born
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. Jose Bergamin
poet persons
He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse. Jorge Luis Borges
poetry lines serious
From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines. Jonathan Swift
poetry obscurity praise
A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read. Hartley Coleridge
poetry has-beens
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. Henry David Thoreau
poetry mastery logic
It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. James Russell Lowell
conceited thinking religion
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him. Walter Savage Landor
conceited self bears
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. William Hazlitt
conceited men sea
If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick. Mark Twain
conceited happened ignore listen neither openly others powerful slight special truth
Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit. Paramahansa Yogananda
conceited body strongest
Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest. William Shakespeare
conceited thinking want
Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist. Ayn Rand
conceit dearest delight gratify hers though wound
Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers George Bernard Shaw
conceited thinking america
We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future? Abraham Lincoln
conceited blessing political
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. Alexander Hamilton