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Worse even than your maddening song, your silence.
Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen. Night passed.
Every contemporary poet is a door to another poet.
The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.
The poet: would rather eat a heart than a hambone.
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.
And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe.
I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.
God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.
God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.
Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.
Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.
What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.
Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men
Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here
The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.
Those who love each other shall become invincible.
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.
I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul.
Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
The world of imagination is the world of eternity.
Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy.
Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.
Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.
Good wombs have borne bad sons." -- (Miranda, I:2)
I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked.
Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues.