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The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.
The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.
Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.
Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?
Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.
Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey
Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity.
Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?
It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself.
I met God. 'What,' he said, 'you already?' 'What,' I said, 'you still?
Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.
Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.
I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening.
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done.
What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
What magic shall solve us the secretOf beauty that's born for an hour?
He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed
Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind.
Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.
If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
The broken door lets in the light. The broken heart lets in the world.
To love by admitting our connection to everything is how we stay well.
The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.
The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.
I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery.
All of the heroes you see falling down were filmed trying to stand up.
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels
Twilight whippoorwill... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness
I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities.
Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
What we might consider is how we are good rather than how good we are.