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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead, start where you stand.
All I wanted was to be a pea of being inside the green pod of time.
A good way to forget your troubles is to help others out of theirs.
I'm not a classically trained composer, and I can't sing very well.
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
From all I did and all I said let no one try to find out who I was.
I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.
If I just work when the spirit moves me, the spirit will ignore me.
You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.
The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.
All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.
There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
Old Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when earth was young.
I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.
And all things as they change proclaim The Lord eternally the same.
Spring bursts today, For love is risen and all the earth's at play.
And he who is forever talking about enemies / Is himself the enemy!
And now the matchless deed's achieved, Determined, Dared, and Done.
I want to be able to touch every part of our community with poetry.
The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.
Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.
It may be that places exist in order that memory itself has a home.
To hide feelings when you are near crying Is the secret of dignity.
I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am.
It is beautiful to express love And even more beautiful to feel it.
A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.
All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.
I really feel better about aging at the age of 86 than I did at 70.
Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!
And he whose soul is flat -- the sky Will cave in on him by and by.
If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them.
Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.
In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.
Faithfulness to principle is only proved by faithfulness in detail.
No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy.
If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.
It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.