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Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.
It’s nice enough to make a man weep, but I don’t weep, do you?
There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.
It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you.
The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.
A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.
The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.
The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.
I can see myself before myself - a being through dark scenery.
Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.
We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.
It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.
Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid
You'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend.
Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.
Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.
Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.
Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.
By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two
Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
The key to successful business is self belief and application.
I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.
What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them.
Slavery is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives.
Charity is a naked child, giving honey to a bee without wings.
Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.
Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.
Hee that hath charge of soules transports them not in bundles.
Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.
Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe.
He that hath no hony in his pot, let him have it in his mouth.
It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree.
Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.