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I'm always trying to find optimistic ways to express myself.
Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.
Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.
Instead of a homeland I hold the metamorphoses of the world.
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
If nobody quotes you, you haven't said a thing worth saying.
You have to conquer the mountain if you are going any futher
Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.
Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.
In a garden you can find, quiet thoughts that calm the mind.
The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.
It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
I love Love -- though he has wings, And like light can flee.
In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet
There is no sport in hate where all the rage Is on one side.
See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.
The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.
A good meal can somewhat repair / The eatings of slight love
The tip no jewel needs to wear: The tip is jewel of the ear.
Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things
Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.
Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.
Love always wakes the dragon and suddenly flames everywhere.
Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance
The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.
What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it ‘Italy.'
Never the time and the place And the loved one all together.
Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An' downa be disputed.
Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.
A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.
Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.
Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.