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Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.
I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.
Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.
When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both.
One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.
I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me
A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.
Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.
When the clouds clear we shall know the colour of the sky
You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well.
All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces.
The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.
Life is weaker than Death and Death is weaker than Truth.
Face of the spring moon- about twelve years old, I'd say.
Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.
I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.
I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?
Memory is sweet. Even when it’s painful, memory is sweet.
Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.
Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.
Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance.
I want, I don’t want. How can one live with such a heart?
If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.
I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived.
If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.
Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.
Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future
the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.
Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
Today again I am hardly myself. It happens over and over.
Who do you want to be in your one wild and precious life?
Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end - tonight's moon
I've hurt you. I've loved you. I've mowed the front yard.
Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.
You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life.
At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness.