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No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed.
The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.
Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.
The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.
It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri.
It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.
Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.
Do you not realise that dance is the pure act of metamorphosis?
A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.
Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
As long as we avoid the creative, we are condemned to reaction.
Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?
The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.
Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.
Disinformation, in order to be effective, must be 90% accurate.
I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.
Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.
I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.
Cupid is naked and does not like artifices contrived by beauty.
In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.
I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.
The crowd is made of little gods, and there is still no heaven.
The sick person is able to sense more than other people notice.
Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.
If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.
My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time.
Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.
My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.
When chill November's surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.
Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design.
Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.
As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.
Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
There is another world for all that live and move-a better one!
Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed
A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger.