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  2. These wise quotes from Maya Angelou will inspire you every day

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    Maya Angelou quotes about life “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” ... “In all my work, what I try to say is that as human beings, we are more alike than we are unalike ...

  3. Success is counted sweetest - Wikipedia

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    As first published under the title "Success" in A Masque of Poets, 1878 "Success is counted sweetest" is a lyric poem by Emily Dickinson written in 1859 and published anonymously in 1864. The poem uses the images of a victorious army and one dying warrior to suggest that only one who has suffered defeat can understand success.

  4. Field Work (poetry collection) - Wikipedia

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    In a 1981 interview with Frank Kinahan, Heaney said Field Work "was an attempt to try to do something deliberately: to change the note and to lengthen the line, and to bring elements of my social self, elements of my usual nature, which is more convivial than most of the poems before that might suggest, to try to bring all that into play. [3]

  5. Bessie Anderson Stanley - Wikipedia

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    Her poem was written in 1904 for a contest held in Brown Book Magazine, [5] by George Livingston Richards Co. of Boston, Massachusetts [2] Mrs. Stanley submitted the words in the form of an essay, rather than as a poem. The competition was to answer the question "What is success?" in 100 words or less. Mrs. Stanley won the first prize of $250. [6]

  6. Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

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    Though first published as "The Valley Nis" in Poems by Edgar A. Poe in 1831, this poem evolved into the version "The Valley of Unrest" now anthologized. In its original version, the speaker asks if all things lovely are far away, and that the valley is part Satan , part angel , and a large part broken heart.

  7. Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems - Wikipedia

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    First edition (publ. New Directions). Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems is a 1962 book of poems by the American modernist poet/writer William Carlos Williams. [1] It was Williams's final book, [2] for which he posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1963. [3]

  8. Boots (poem) - Wikipedia

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    "Boots" is a poem by English author and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in 1903, in his collection The Five Nations. [1]"Boots" imagines the repetitive thoughts of a British Army infantryman marching in South Africa during the Second Boer War.

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