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Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.
Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.
This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.
Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.
Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
For I have not seen another shrine blissful like my own body.
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.
Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.
I has a dream about reality. It was such a relief to wake up.
Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.
I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT.
Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.
I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.
an uneasy rhythm of life is more life like than an easy death
If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.
I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.
I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.
There is no such thing as an absolute truth to be discovered.
Like a stone That rolls down a hill, I have come to this day.
Reaper of enemies; strong of grip; One kind with his fathers.
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.
Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.
My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.
No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief.
The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.
I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.
Down in the bottom of my childhood my father stands laughing.
I've been beating my head all day long on the same six lines.
The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.
Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.
Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.
Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.
Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.
In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
Our claim to our own bodies and our world is our catastrophe.
The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.
Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.
Dobbin at manger pulls his hay: Gone is another summer's day.
Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.