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I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American.
While death and darkness girdle me I grope for immortality.
I am not interested in immortality but only in tea flavour.
Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution.
I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.
The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.
I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!
Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.
We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.
You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul.
Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling
There always seems to be an element of faith in my writing.
I respond to mood. I hear some phrase, or pick up a rhythm.
I bless / all knowledge of love, all ways of publishing it.
At any moment, you know, your manufactured cool could blow.
He who searches for his beloved is not afraid of the world.
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
Days I kept busy with fractured angels' client masquerades.
A book should be made like a watch and sold like a sausage.
Only in Russia poetry is respected - it gets people killed.
Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.
Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once.
We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.
Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
Only a single line is needed to discover who is doing what.
Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
Tobacco surely was designed To poison, and destroy mankind.
Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.
What I read, I read thoroughly and retain almost all of it.
Love, one time, layeth burdens; another time, giveth wings.
Never is true love blind, but rather brings an added light.
Toronto is a city that has yet to fall in love with itself.
The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age.
The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.
Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.