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Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.
Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards.
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.
resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.
I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.
I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.
News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.
I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.
The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part.
The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.
Strew your gladness on earth's bed, So be merry, so be dead.
In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.
To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!
I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.
At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.
The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
Anything that does not bring you alive is too small for you.
Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone.
I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.
To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.
He tries to find the exit From himself But there is no door.
Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
The whole truth... sings only - and all lovers are the song.
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.
I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity Came down and settled over me
Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free.
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.