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These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
If only you knew what bliss I find in being nothing.
When I say the word You, I mean a hundred universes.
Tomorrow you'll be brave, you say? Fool! Dive today.
There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness.
Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips.
The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.
The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.
Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.
Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.
Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.
Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.
Poetry calls into question what it means to be human
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
It is equally important to listen as it is to speak.
Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain
We're all worth the same When we turn off the light.
I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.
He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.
I do quite extensive research for most of my novels.
One is punished by the very things by which he sins.
Some people drop their wings in order to grow a hump
Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock.
The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
People don't really think other people are the same.
Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything.
Whoever truly worships the gods loves their priests.
Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.
Don't wait to find solid ground. Dance in emptiness.
The Pearl Principle - no inner irritation, no pearl.
I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all.
I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling.
The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
All in their lifetime carve their own soul's statue.
My soul to-day Is far away Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.
To think well is to serve God in the interior court.
A wise man sings his joy in the closet of his heart.
The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.
Pay me for my work, but I don't do it for the money.