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It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are.
Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies.
O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!
in February there is everything to hope for and nothing to regret.
Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.
I know the cause of all human disappointment -- worldly prejudice.
It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.
Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.
In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.
A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince.
The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly.
Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.
To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.
Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?
If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.
What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?
Into the statue that breathes, the soul of the sculptor is bidden.
You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.
God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.
Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.
No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.
Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.
Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.
The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men, for a' that!
Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.
Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.
God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.
...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.
Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.
Why should I be unhappy? Each parcel of my being is in full bloom.
All the particles of the World are in Love and looking for Lovers.
The only way to measure a lover is by the grandeur of the beloved.
The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.
Peaceful is the one who is not concerned with having more or less.
Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd's love filling you.
The soul which cannot endure fire and smoke won't find the Secret.
Are you searching for your soul? Then come out of your own prison.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being - you.