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52 quotes found

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The Peach Blossom Pool is a thousand feet deep, but it cannot compare to your farewell, Wang Lun.

—Li BaiPoet

Medieval ERA • East Asia

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Love is not fashionable any more, the poets are coming down with reality.

—Bessie HeadNovelist

Post-War ERA • Southern Africa

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The moon has set and the Pleiades. It is midnight. Time passes. I lie alone.

—SapphoLyric Poet

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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The hands that ache from toil and hunger / The hands that know no rest.

—Faiz Ahmad FaizScholar & Thinker

Post-War ERA • South Asia

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Only the wind can hear me now.

—Hone TuwharePoet

Post-War ERA • Oceania

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Our history has been stolen, our language suppressed, our culture defamed.

—Haunani-Kay TraskScholar, Poet & Activist

Late Modern ERA • Oceania

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Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this: that he should have knowledge of his own misfortunes.

—HerodotusHistorian

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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The beautiful one has fallen into the trap, She is finished!

—Okot p'BitekPoet & Anthropologist

Post-War ERA • East Africa

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This world of dew is only a world of dew — and yet, and yet.

—Kobayashi IssaPoet

Enlightenment ERA • East Asia

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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

—ColetteNovelist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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The greatest sorrow is that a person cannot decide his own destiny.

—Lu XunWriter, Essayist & Critic

Early Modern ERA • East Asia

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Every day, one less white friend. Every day, one less white friend.

—Claudia RankinePoet & Essayist

Digital Age ERA • Caribbean

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You want me white, you want me foam, you want me pearl.

—Alfonsina StorniPoet & Feminist

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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My eye weeps, and will weep forever; good reason has it to weep.

—Al-KhansaPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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I cannot live, dear Lord, if I do not love Thee.

—Mechthild of MagdeburgMystic, Writer & Author

Medieval ERA • Western Europe

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O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

—Walt WhitmanPoet & Essayist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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The eye does not tire of weeping for a noble man lost.

—Al-KhansaPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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The best thing for man is not to be born at all.

—Theognis of MegaraElegiac Poet

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Sleep on, poor world, in your dark dreams!

—Sándor PetőfiPoet & Revolutionary

Industrial Age ERA • Eastern Europe

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We have known sarcasm, insults, and blows night and morning.

—Patrice LumumbaScholar & Thinker

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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