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And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.
Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.
You can measure the depth of a person's awakening by how they serve others
We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.
I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.
Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.
I don't have a philosophy. I have an instinct. I accept stuff that I like.
The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!
Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.
Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy
Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing.
A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor.
Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.
Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.
You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.
Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!
A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English.
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
I grew up in a confused house: too much unwanted attention or none at all.
Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.
Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.
If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.
Women are tired of 'presenting' themselves; we just want to be who we are.
In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite.
A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.
I learned that I had been brought up as a protected, blindfolded daughter.
We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.
Someone's writing down your mistakes, someone's documenting your downfall.
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!
We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.
It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.
Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
There's no posterity to write for. I'm writing now for mutated arthropods.
I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.
It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.
Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.
Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.