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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
I feel because I am never in my comfort zone I have an advantage.
We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.
What do you call a comedian who runs for president? A trump card.
Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.
The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.
I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot
Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
To Tom Carlson or his dog-depending on whose taste it best suits.
Men should not care too much for good looks; neglect is becoming.
When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.
Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.
The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]
Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.
Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
If you want good roses, sharpen your knife and harden your heart.
The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.
We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.
He who flies can also return; but it is not so with him who dies.
The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire.
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.
The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!
The trick is, to treat your days as if each one may be your last.
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems
To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love.
I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.
My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.
Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.
Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.
He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.
I'm even afraid of kittens. They bite too! But I respect animals.
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love.
Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom.
If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living.
I believe that you understand a church only when you kneel in it.
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
A pillow for thee will I bring,Stuffed with down of angel's wing.