I have seen the universe! It is made of poems!

The words loved me and I loved them in return.

Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

I love what's left after love has been tested.

Always try to see yourself through God's eyes.

Truth may be unattainable, but honesty is not.

Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath.

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.

Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it

I have stitched life into me like a rare organ

Spiderlike, I spin mirrors, Loyal to my image.

Education is the miracle; I'm just the worker.

Art is our defense against hysteria and death.

Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire

He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.

What millions died that Caesar might be great!

Be bold: Venus herself aids the stout-hearted.

The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.

The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

No day shall erase you from the memory of time

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

In the church of my heart the choir is on fire

Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think

The sea Severs not only lands but also selves.

There is no God any more divine than Yourself.

And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles

O amazement of things-even the least particle!

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour

There is another world, but it is in this one.

It seems to me that true love is a discipline.

But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.

The assembled souls of all that men held wise.

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

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