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Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.
However alert we are, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy.
Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.
Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.
I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.
And on seesaw Sunday nights, I'd woo who ever I would with my wicked eye!
may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living
who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you
So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.
When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine.
Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.
Strange how few, After alls said and done, the things that are Of moment.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.
A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.
Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
Who knows if Shakespeare might not have thought less if he had read more?
Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.
I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.
If this world isn't good enough for us then an afterlife won't be enough.
Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.
There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.
The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.
To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pillow.
We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.
It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...
Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.
He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.
In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.
As long as [our] independence is not achieved, it remains to be achieved.
The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies.
Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.
A City that parlies is half gotten. [A city that parleys is half gotten.]
Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.
Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides.
He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the winter after.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep!
I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.