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Dancing music, music sad, Both together, sane and mad.
It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.
A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.
Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb
Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.
True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.
For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.
Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.
Fidelity--a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch.
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate
I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.
Trust not to outward show. [Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]
Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.
Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.
When you really look for me you will see me instantly.
Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell
An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.
The highest virtue here may be least in another world.
Then it is also in my heart to be worthy of your hate.
It is only when you are pursued that you become swift.
Love me like a wrong turn on a bad road late at night.
It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.
Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
It is strange what society will endure from its idols.
To find pleasure in life, make the most of the spring.
The lyric self is the self; the narrative self is not.
I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.
Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.
The next greatest pleasure to love is to talk of love.
A man can dignify his rank; no rank Can dignify a man.
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others
If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered.
Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride.
Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.
Why are our joys remembered more bitter than our woes?
There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.
There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
we live our fate before we realize exactly what it is.