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But at that moment he knew what it was that had quickened the heart in him. Moreover he was beginning to perceive what had been amiss with him all his life, and that he whose heart does not respond to either joy or sorrow can hardly be called human.

Selma Lagerlof in The Emperor of Portugallia (1914), translated by Velma Swanston Howard
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Youth has no age.

classic quote by Pablo Picasso
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needless holy wars-
stop the innocence's decay
white lily blooming

haiku by Dan Costinaş (2016)
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Sebastian: He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

classic line from the play The Tempest, Act II, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1611)
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The Listeners

'Is there anybody there?' said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest’s ferny floor:
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller’s head:
And he smote upon the door again a second time;
'Is there anybody there?' he said.
But no one descended to the Traveller;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
Where he stood perplexed and still.
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller's call.

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poem by Walter de la Mare
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

classic quote by E.E. Cummings
Added by Lucian Velea
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Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

classic quote by James Stephens
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