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🇦🇺William Shakespeare

Literature

English Renaissance

1948–2010

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

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🇩🇪Friedrich Hölderlin

Philosophy

Idealism

1770–1843

"Wer das Tiefste gedacht, liebt das Lebendigste."

"Sing louder aroundTo the bells' cheerful sound,While our sports shall be seenOn the ecchoing green."

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

"He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good."

"I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live."

"The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege."

"A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody."

"First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love."

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."

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🇮🇳A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Politics

1931–2015

"All birds find shelter during a rain, but eagle avoids rain by flying above the clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference."

"What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism."

"They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces."

"The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes."

"Somerset Maugham refers more than once to the pleasure of the Malayan morning - papaya and eggs and bacon and strong British tea taken while the air is cool and the sun awaits its sudden thrust into the green land...."

"You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance."

"Better to be without logic than without feeling."

"So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore."

"I make a point of writing, if only a little, every day, as a kind of discipline so that it is not a whim but a piece of work."

"By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a prescence, a genius loci, a potency."

"The real secret is why love starts out with claws like a cat and then fades with time like a half-eaten mouse."

"I have always loved playing around with words. I didn’t know it was called poetry. I was just an innocent kid messing around with words when an adult said ‘You’re a poet, be published or be damned’."

"The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West."

"Mopsa the Fairy" at A Celebration of Women Writers"

"I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people. Neither is anyone I have ever cared deeply about."

"El comedulce, Bobby Abreu is as sweet as candy!*"

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Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Literature

1861–1907

"The Genealogy of Coleridge Family and Coleridge links"

"One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full."

"Li Ching Chao Poems and Poetry at Famous Poets and Poems"

"No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees,sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air,dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding,our animal passion rooted in the city."

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🇵🇹Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Literature

1919–2004

"Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen at Poetry International Web"

"The artist and the poet have the facility for mistaking pure languor for meditative peace and strength. True meditation "rests" in swiftness."

"Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting."

"Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail; but in conveying a right impression."

"Celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light, Columbia's scenes of glorious toils I write. While freedom's cause her anxious breast alarms, She flashes dreadful in refulgent arms."

"The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man."

"You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me."

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