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Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.
My poems mean what people take them to mean.
I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes.
To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.
Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war.
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
The temples perish, but the God still lives.
Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud.
He hath no power that hath not power to use.
Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
The strongest passion which I have is honor.
Most things may never happen: this one will.
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
Sweet speaking oft a currish heart reclaims.
They love indeed who quake to say they love.
Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.
Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
Let each man have the wit to go his own way.
Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.
Love will always be the most powerful force.
What joy is better than the news of friends?
Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.
Oh, to be in England now that April's there.
Since there my past life lies, why alter it?
Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.
Earth being so good, would heaven seem best?
He guides me and the bird. In His good time!
Death was past, life not come: so he waited.
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
You can't get too much winter in the winter.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.
The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.
Living jewels dropped unstained from heaven.
My name is Death: the last best friend am I.
Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.
Even goats may have starlight in their eyes.
Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions.
The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen
I've come to terms with it, it knows I know.
The rose blinds the sharpshooting champions.
Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.
You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.
Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.
Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.