We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.

The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites

I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

people want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain

Your spirit is mingled with mine what touches you, touches me.

To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.

The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him.

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

Sometimes I get so depressed 'Bout what I haven't done. -NEVER

Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic.

Believers believe in resurrection, atheists only in comebacks.

Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?

Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.

Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.

Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.

What the morrow's years might bring 'twas sin for man to know.

Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion.

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.

Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me.

A Man that wants Money thinks none can be unhappy that has it.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.

Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry.

I suppose if I gave myself the chance I could be an alcoholic.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

Mountains terrify me - they just sit about; they are so proud.

Illumination by the Spirit is the endless end of every virtue.

You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is.

Love's a fire that needs renewal Of fresh beauty for its fuel.

As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

We love we know not what, and therefore everything allures us.

Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true?

Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things.

I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

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