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The end of a dissolute life is most commonly a desperate death.
I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.
You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.
Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.
I don't remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.
I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt
A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.
It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.
The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.
The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.
Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
We are what we are, the spirit afterwards, but first the touch.
One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.
Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.
One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.
I cut my teeth as the black raccoon-- For implements of battle.
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.
Beauty without the beloved is a like a sword through the heart.
To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.
My children's faces are private candles i sometimes worship at.
Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.
Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.
Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.
Words - as I speak or write them - make a path on which I walk.
It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free.
Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.
Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth.
The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life without a dream?
I am for the woods against the world, But are the woods for me?
The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.
And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.
The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
It's food too fine for angels, yet come, take and eat thy fill!
Making war or rebellion is messy, like eating soup off a knife.
We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?