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Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.
People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.
Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?
Your separation from God is the hardest work you will ever do.
Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.
Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.
Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.
All things must change To something new, to something strange.
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.
A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.
Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.
Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.
Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen.
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.
Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.
It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.
Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.
Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future.
Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way
Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses
Question the bravery. Say it's not courage. Call it a passion.
Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.
Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.
As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it.
Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.
I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you.
Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.
Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause
Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound
They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore.