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Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet.
Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.
The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.
Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
You [Chopin] have in your fingers an orchestra of butterflies.
... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.
We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.
Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.
Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver.
We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.
As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.
For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.
The censorship of language is the censorship of consciousness.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.
When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.
Thumbs grow into my throat. I wear slaps like a spot of rouge.
I see myself as one would see another. I have been cut in two.
Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.
I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.
Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
It's dangerous to have feelings when you don't have any money.
You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.
Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166
I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.
So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.
You can't co-opt labor issues if you are in the working class.
I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.
Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness
I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano.
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music
Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.
A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.