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There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.
Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.
I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.
Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.
He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.
Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.
You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you
I think that if poetry is not a personal act, it's a pamphlet.
that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.
A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.
My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.
Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.
Always someone resting there - a lone rock in the summer field
Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.
Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
have the courage to write whatever your dream is for yourself.
Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth.
Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.
'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.
Every single soul is a poem, written on the back of God's hand
History shows that Americans believe in doing the right thing.
A poem is a cup of words open to the sky and wind in a bucket.
He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk.
When I ponder my mind I consistently find It is glued On food.
Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.
The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.
Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game.
When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.
Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together.
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.
To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.