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• It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.... They both speak by and to the same organs; the bodies in which both of them are clothed may be said to be of the same substance, their affections are kindred, and almost identical, not necessarily differing even in degree; Poetry sheds no tears "such as Angels weep," but natural and human tears; she can boast of no celestial ichor that distinguishes her vital juices from those of prose; the same human blood circulates through the veins of them both.

  William Wordsworth

  Blood, Differences, Poetry

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• Great is the art,
  Great be the manners, of the bard.
  He shall not his brain encumber
  With the coil of rhythm and number;
  But, leaving rule and pale forethought,
  He shall aye climb
  For his rhyme.
  "Pass in, pass in," the angels say

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Numbers, Poetry

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4360, Delphi Classics

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• Haven't you heard, though,
  About the ships where war has found them out
  At sea, about the towns where war has come
  Through opening clouds at night with droning speed
  Further o'erhead than all but stars and angels
  And children in the ships and in the towns?

  Robert Frost

  Stars, Children, War

  Robert Frost (2013). “Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.

  Martin Luther

  Past, History, Parent

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan, Helmut T. Lehmann (1955). “Works”

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• There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Boys, Men

  Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.24

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• And what's above is in the past
  As sure as all the angels are.

  Wallace Stevens

  Past, Heaven

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.80, Knopf

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• O thou, the drink of gods and angels! Wine

  Robert Herrick

  Wine, Drink

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.45

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• It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the creature whom the psalmist described as a little lower than the angels ... or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification. It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man's destiny.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Struggle, Fall

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• Love's the only thing I've thought of or read about since I was knee-high. That's what I always dreamed of, of meeting somebody and falling in love. And when that remarkable thing happened, I was going to recite poetry to her for hours about how her heart's an angel's wing and her hair the strings of a heavenly harp. Instead I got drunk and hollered at her and called her a harpy.

  Ben Hecht

  Love, Fall, Heart

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• Throughout much of history, women writers have capitulated to male standards, and have paid too much heed to what Virginia Woolf calls "the angel in the house." She is that little ghost who sits on one's shoulder while one writes and whispers, "Be nice, don't say anything that will embarrass the family, don't say anything your man will disapprove of ..." [ellipsis in original] The "angel in the house" castrates one's creativity because it deprives one of essential honesty, and many women writers have yet to win the freedom to be honest with themselves.

  Erica Jong

  Honesty, Nice, Writing

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• All the oxygen of the world was in them.
  All the feet of the babies of the world were in them.
  All the crotches of the angels of the world were in them.
  All the morning kisses of Philadelphia were in them.

  Anne Sexton

  Happiness, Baby, Morning

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Father,
  you died once,
  salted down at fifty-nine,
  packed down like a big snow angel,
  wasn't that enough?

  Anne Sexton

  Friends, Father, Snow

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• I am apt to think, if we knew what it was to be an angel for one hour, we should return to this world, though it were to sit on the brightest throne in it, with vastly more loathing and reluctance than we would now descend into a loathsome dungeon or sepulchre.

  George Berkeley

  Thinking, Dungeons, Thrones

  George Berkeley, Joseph Stock (1820). “The Works of George Berkeley”, p.66

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• I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.

  Anthony Trollope

  Thinking, Afterlife, Atoms

  Anthony Trollope (1983). “The Letters of Anthony Trollope”, p.691, Stanford University Press

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• A woman who'd lost her first son
  consoled us with an angel gone ahead
  to pray for our family--
  gone into that sky
  seeking oxygen,
  gone into autopsy

  Michael S. Harper

  Son, Oxygen, Sky

  Michael S. Harper (1977). “Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems”, p.197, University of Illinois Press

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• Heed not Mephistopheles, my children, lest you suffer eternal damnation. When he whispers in your ear, turn away your head and hearken instead to the angel on your shoulder.

  Harry Segall

  Children, Temptation, Suffering

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• You are all angels, you guys know that right?

  Kris Wu

  Guy, Knows

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• It is so easy to take the violet flame and to use it that I am certain that once you begin you will recognize that the violet flame and the angels of the violet flame are the servants of the sons and daughters of God and the children of the Light, that the violet flame joyously serves you and acts to cleanse your entire being so that, as Jesus said, your whole body can be full of light.

  Elizabeth Clare Prophet

  Daughter, Jesus, Children

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• I boil my tears in a twisted spoon
  And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.

  Etheridge Knight

  Tears, Spoons, Twisted

  Etheridge Knight (1973). “Belly song and other poems”, Broadside Pr

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• Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church.

  Jacques Roumain

  Rain, Blow, Two

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• Shall we gather at the river,
  Where bright angel feet have trod;
  With its crystal tide for ever,
  Flowing by the throne of God?

  Robert Lowry

  Rivers, Feet, Thrones

  Robert Lowry, William Howard Doane, Ira David Sankey (1877). “Welcome Tidings: A New Collection of Sacred Songs for the Sunday School”, p.153

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• I don't believe in angels but the moon is now dead for me. The last glass of wine is gone before the thirst I'm suffering from. The blue grass lost its way running away from your sails.

  Roque Dalton

  Running, Believe, Wine

  Roque Dalton (1996). “Small Hours of the Night: Selected Poems of Roque Dalton”

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• The footprints of an Angel in your life are Love.

  Genevieve

  Footprint

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• To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Fate, Mind, Done

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• In Angels in America, I got to fulfill a lifelong dream. I was in the air eight nights a week for two years, and I just loved it.

  Ellen McLaughlin

  Dream, Night, Eight

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