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Of course,Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture.
We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.
Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.
What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.
God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.
The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.
Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.
My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.
As a rule, it was the pleasure-haters who became unjust.
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
Out on the lawn I lie in bed, Vega conspicuous overhead.
The lights must never go out, The music must always play
With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse
Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.
You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.
Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.
Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.
What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start.
Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm.
Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss
If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
Our claim to our own bodies and our world is our catastrophe.
Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.
There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.
The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.