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Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies.
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable.
Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it.
Things of today? Deeds which are harvest for Eternity!
For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.
Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.
But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!
That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood.
It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.
Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die.
The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.
I thought 'Chelsea Girls' was going to change my life.
If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.
If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.
Doubt is what allows a single gesture to have a heart.
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.
Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.
Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.
The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.
God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arm.
By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured
An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.
He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
He quits his place well, that leaves his friend there.
Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.
Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.
Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.
The hole calls the thiefe. [The hole calls the thief.]
The house is a fine house, when good folks are within.
Two sparrows on one Ear of Corn make an ill agreement.
One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.
There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.
Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.