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There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.
Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.
An aphorism should be like a burr: sting, ... and leave a little soreness.
If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay.
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.
The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images.
To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
I think it's a dangerous thing for anyone to have power over other people.
Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.
Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.
For the love that is purest and sweetest Has a kiss of desire on the lips.
The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
It amazes me there are movies about writers… such inert, uneventful lives.
There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority.
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.
Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.
Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.
The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been.
Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?
I have nothing to speak of but my self-and what can I say but what I feel.
It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.
Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.
So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.
On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.
Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.
Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east.
We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.
A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.
any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense
This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.
I'm no parasite. I'm a poet who will bring honor and glory to his country.
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.
Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.
There are so many little dyings How do we know which one of them is death?
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.