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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.
Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.
Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing.
Hatred isgeneralized, but love is for the particular.
You can't express emotion without giving information.
My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.
The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.
These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always.
And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.
Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.
We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.
I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.
You aren't sick & unhappy only alive & stuck with it.
No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.
Theres nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.
It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Spring comes: the flowers learn their colored shapes.
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.
I do not sleep to dream but dream to change the world
There is only one question: / how to love this world.
The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus.
The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.
Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.
It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?
Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.
My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest?
United States: the country where liberty is a statue.
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
A God-intoxicated man. [Ger., Gott-trunkener Mensch.]
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.
The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.
Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.
It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.
Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.
One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.
If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Within my heart is the lamp of love, And that is day!
No more let life divide what death can join together.