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Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so, To make my end too sudden.
But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.
Let all the learned say what they can, 'tis ready money makes the man.
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
We hold our hate too choice a thing, for light and careless lavishing.
The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.
The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.
Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.
The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
You know, I'm worried about Szymborska. I wish she would stop smoking.
The sea at springtime.All day it rises and falls,yes, rises and falls.
If I told you about a land of love...would you swallow it as a remedy?
I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.
In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.
Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!
I am 23, the year of the iron birthday, the gate of darkness. I am ill.
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
I lived a life I knew I had to hide My father's edicts resolutely grim.
And thou shalt in thy daughter see, This picture, once, resembled thee.
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.
The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.
Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand!
If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.
We must all live so that our children do not have to pay for our deeds.
We are all carousers and loose women here; How unhappy we are together!
Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'
Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting.
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.
What I'm after is that wakeful state through language that stays alive.
Think of the road as a kind of zone and a site of incredible diversity.
Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.
A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
Genius is nothing more than an extraordinary manifestation of the body.
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk.
I want to be anonymous . . . my ambition is to be completely forgotten.