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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.
Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.
I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.
Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.
There's an old blues refrain: I begged for water, you gave me gasoline.
To hallow'd duty Here with a loyal and heroic heart, Bind we our lives.
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.
I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.
Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?
Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.
What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins.
Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.
Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.
In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.
The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.
I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.
Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.
My house, my house, though thou art small, Thou art to me the Escurial.
Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.
Pension never inriched young man. [Pension never enriched a young man.]
Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have patience.
The Future, like a fruitfuller Summer, sits Ripening her Eden silently.
Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.
God?is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.
The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.
Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.
Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --
The revolution will be no re-run brothers, The revolution will be live.
Schedule? I have no schedule. There is no hurry. I work when I want to.
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.
Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.
He who knows how to shave the razor, will know how to erase the eraser.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.
No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.
Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine.
Often times we call a man [or woman] cold when he [or she] is only sad.