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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
In the gap between thoughts nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.
Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.
I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
Some events are in the area of the soul where words cannot penetrate.
I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse.
Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
Many search for happiness as we look for a hate we wear on our heads.
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
When a lady's erotic life is vexed God knows what God is coming next.
Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.
Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious.
Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.
The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [Lat., Di pia facta vident.]
He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.
If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.
Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood.
That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.
Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.
Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.
Blessings star forth forever; but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.
On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.
Do we call the star lost that is hidden / In the great light of morn?
Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.
I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian.
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.
We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers.
You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.
A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time.
To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.
The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom.
Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!
For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.
God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true
A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.
More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
Ends and beginningsthere are no such things. There are only middles.
There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain.