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Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?
Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
It were a journey like the path to heaven, To help you find them.
And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.
Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.
Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.
One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.
To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.
A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.
I believe that love is the single, true prosperity of any moment.
It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.
Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.
What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others' suffering.
The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.
Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.
When you feel Jealousy is a sign that Love should have each other
Love's merciless, the way it travels in and keeps emitting light.
Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.
To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others.
In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.
So much to win, so much to lose, No marvel that I fear to choose.
A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.
I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.
Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.
Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.
Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.
Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important.
There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.
The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be.
Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical.
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
Without you my air tastes like nothing. For you I hold my breath.