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I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.
Thousands and thousands of colors paint the bosom of the earth so gaily.
To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
The only certainties that don't break down are those acquired in prayer.
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time
Middle -age is the time of life, that a man first notices - in his wife.
It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy!
The Lady has always moved to the next town and you stumble on after Her.
I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.
A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look
The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her.
Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.
Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Give your life to the one who already owns your breath and your moments.
A seeker of Truth looks beyond the apparent and contemplates the hidden.
Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.
Carry your baggage towards silence , when you seek the signs of the way.
I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.
Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another
God does not look at your outer forms, but at the love within your love.
Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?
Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.
I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
If you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror.
I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.
I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.
Do not doubt a woman's power to aid; no toil Can daunt a pure affection.
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.
The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
The claw of the magnolia, drunk on its own scents, asks nothing of life.
The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.
I deserve that, don't I, some sort of blazing love that I can live with.
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.