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The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.
We are ghosts, hungry for something bigger than what our lips are kissing.
Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue.
Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.
I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect.
My final belief is suffering. And I begin to believe that I do not suffer.
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
I have laid sorrow to sleep;Love sleeps.She who oft made me weepNow weeps.
Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.
It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.
The world does not know it needs poems any longer, but we believe it does.
Women want a man who can say I love you every night and prove it every day
When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.
Make love to me like you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.
If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, youre wasting it.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.
It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age
The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.
Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.
I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.
All earth's full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still.
Too hard for any frog's digestion,To have his froghood call'd in question!
That is what the intuition is for: it is the direct messenger of the soul.
Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.
Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.
The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.
Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.
It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.
Two forces create eternity - a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.
Will the day tell its secret Before it disappears, Becomes timeless night.
When you get a class reciting some great poems, it'll tear your heart out.
I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.
The red washing down the bathtub can’t change the color of the sea at all.
Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.
I have just had eighteen whiskeys in a row. I do believe that is a record.
guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders
Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend
The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.