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There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.
And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.
Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.
But to a higher mark than song can reach, Rose this pure eloquence.
Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know.
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
The Purpose of Time is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once
One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.
The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.
War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.
What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.
Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.
And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.
Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.
Most people who write and publish poetry teach or do something else.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms.
My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love.” from “Memoriam
I want to be a child and not a mother, and I feel guilty about this.
I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild.
Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.
Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms me.
Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.
Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.
It is not easy to be honest because it is impossible to be complete.
Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.
Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!