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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.
It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.
Every time it starts to snow, I would like to have sex.
If we knew the value of suffering, we would ask for it.
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
Even in Kyoto/Hearing the cuckoo's cry/I long for Kyoto
Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.
instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.
Take the lowest place, and you shall reach the highest.
Who can live in heart so glad As the merry country lad?
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!
Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn.
Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.
The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.
"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)
Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable.
These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.
Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.
Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]
In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength.
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose.
Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.
To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.
Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.
When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
If she is pleasing to one man, a girl is taken care of.
Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.
I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough
There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it?