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I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again
She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
And the coolness of your smile is stirringofbirds between my arms
Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well
How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
Music waves eternal wands,-- Enchantress of the souls of mortals!
But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine.
Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.
She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.
Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.
Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know.
Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Everything's a fan. Brother, open up your arms. God is the pivot.
Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.
Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul.
Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!
The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day.
Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.
The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.
If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.
Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne.
Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.
The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.
The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.
The old say, "I remember when." The young say, "What's the news?"
All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example.
For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.
He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.
If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese.
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
There's no such conquering weapon as the necessity of conquering.
When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.
Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.
I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright.
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.
A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment's life - that's me.
No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.
The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.
I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.
To wind the mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of time.
From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.
I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.