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He that is truly dedicated to war hath no self-love
Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.
There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.
Who is here so vile that will not love his country?
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
All the world is a stage and we are merely players.
To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes
Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth
For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.
Where souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand.
Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.
The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose.
The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.
And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Caressing reassures lovers that their love endures.
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
Things go away to return, brightened for the passage
Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
I am self-taught. In other words, God is my teacher.
Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter
I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad.
Not all lines, not all images, survive their season.
I am in my own mind. I am locked in the wrong house.
But my future is a secret. / It is as shy as a mole.
I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.
I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.
What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Here I am, a wild beast cut off from his companions.
Eternal superiority of the Dandy. What is the Dandy?
Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
Sex can sometimes become the most horrible of tasks.