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Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.
Everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait and fast.
Fall the deep curtains, delicate the weave, fair the thread.
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.
I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.
Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed.
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.
Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.
I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane
Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.
He who loves not flowers, has lost all love and fear of God.
The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
I had a variety of minds about me and all of them unsettled.
When I sit down to eat, the greatest spice of all is hunger.
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.
To be saved is only this-salvation from our own selfishness.
Freedom's soil hath only place For a free and fearless race!
There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving.
Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.
Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep.
Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.
Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.
Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.
There are few persons to whom truth is not a sort of insult.
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words.
One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.
There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.
The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.
Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.
As for reality, I don't even have any interest in that word.
In the love of a man and a woman is the look of God looking.