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I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's responses.
I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.
Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.
I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.
We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?
No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.
A poem is a box, a thing, to put other things in. For safe keeping.
When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
I want what everybody wants, that's how I know I'm still breathing.
The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.
We are born with only one obligation - to be completely who we are.
Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.
Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light.
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.
Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.
I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.
Days go by when I do nothing but underline the damp edge of myself.
Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between faith and hope.
Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps' nest.
Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
Who fastest walks, but walks astray, Is only furthest from his way.
A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
I love giving flowers. It is so deliciously unlasting and romantic.
Having personal things in balance is more important than the other.
The spirit of the age is not synonymous with what the public likes.
Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life.
A book is a most delightful companion. It gives, and does not take.
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.
My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.
At another year I would not boggle Except that when I jog I joggle.
Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down.
He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.
Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love
Though the strength is lacking, yet the willingness is commendable.
Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.
Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.
I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.
Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.
Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.