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I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
You must believe me when I believe, and not when I doubt.
I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!
Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.
April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.
Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream.
Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed.
The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.
No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.
Little black horse. Where are you taking your dead rider?
You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own
The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart.
Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.
I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.
No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul.
I smoke a brown pipe like the breast of a little negress.
And the fruits will outdo what the flowers have promised.
I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.
O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?
The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little.
I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved.
Like first love, the heart of Russia will not forget you.
I love poetry and my country above all else in the world.
The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.
When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.
Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.
Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.
Love endeth like the chianti flask, its drops are bitter.
Style is doing things not in any way but in the best way.
Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.
Hee that would be a Gentleman, let him goe to an assault.
Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.
Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.
Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements.
Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.
Take heed of credit decaid, and people that have nothing.
The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.
The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.
Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both.
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.
Far worse it is, To lose than never to have tasted bliss.