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To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.
I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.
This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.
A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.
Tragedy--to fall in love with a face, and marry the whole woman.
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
Sit mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body)
A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.
The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
The only real access that I have to my mind is when I'm writing.
Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are.
Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.
Never let too much criticism or too much praise get in your way.
Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.
Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.
There is a geography of the human spirit, common to all peoples.
It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood.
Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.
In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys.
No luck was dumb because luck was just another name for miracle.
Being edited is like falling face down into a threshing machine.
Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
If what we change does not change us we are playing with blocks.
If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.
Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.
Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.
Poetry is an investigation, not an expression, of what you know.
Who's to say the effort to be real isn't the beginning of wings?
Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.
People don't want to feel stuck, they want to be able to change.
Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.
Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth.