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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.
My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself.
Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out.
There is an animal inside me, clutching fast to my heart, a huge crab.
To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems.
I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.
Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.
No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.
Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth.
The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.
If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
Freedom is nothing but the distance between the hunter and the hunted.
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
Positive things happen when you distance yourself from negative people
When a kid says "smell my hand," it almost never smells like cinnamon.
Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.
It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.
Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.
But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny.
Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.
You must become an activist if you are going to live the natural life.
What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.
It's a beautiful lucid dream that has language that I can fiddle with.
My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.
How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life!
Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.
He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.
Life is a garment we continuously alter, but which never seems to fit.
The world cannot be translated; It can only be dreamed of and touched.
To keep the air fresh among words Is the secret of verbal cleanliness.
To dream on occasion is not dreaming, To love on occasion is not love.
What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.
Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.
Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.