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I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear.
The human imagination can connect to practically anything.
Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.
Abundance is scooped from abundance yet abundance remains.
Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.
Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.
Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.
I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth.
The knowledge and reason speak, ignorance and error shout.
Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
If you're looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
Any cupcake consumed before 9AM is, technically, a muffin.
Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.
I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
"Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me."
I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.
one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid
unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it
our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory
I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.
so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another
You don't go on "probably" when love and guns are in hand.
there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds
I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories.
Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.
Peace on earth, and mercy mild God and sinners reconciled.
The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.
Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.
Everything important always begins from something trivial.
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.