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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
Practice random acts of kindness, the world needs it more than you think
When two men fight over a woman it's the fight they want, not the woman.
Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.
I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.
Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.
No matter how brief an encounter you have with anybody, you both change.
Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.
I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.
It’s the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife.
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
I've been coming to Cambodia off and on, six months of the year usually.
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.
As a tree my sin stands To darken all lands; Death is the fruit it bore.
Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks.
When you focus with soul eyes, / You will see home in many, many places.
Love - at least the pair-bonded, prescribed love - does not conquer all.
To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.
I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big.
Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.
The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true.
And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days.
Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skilfully curled) all worlds
Spring's greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.
Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.
A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.
Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist memory shrinks without forgetting
There are many other pleasures - besides the pleasure of physical union.