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Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.
Be, in this immensity of night, the magic force at your sense's crossroad.
When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.
Those accept an obligation lightly who feel lightly about letting it drop.
He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.
I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.
An aching tooth is better out than in. To lose a rotting member is a gain.
A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer Can every anguish calmly bear.
As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken.
When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.
He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.
I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.
Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing.....I am in full sunshine now.
'Tis only when they spring to Heaven that angels reveal themselves to you.
Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.
Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.
Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.
None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse.
the scythers, Time and Death, Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath
The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.
A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.
Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.
I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems
I believe the world is beautiful, and poetry, like bread, is for everyone.
A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower.
What a piece of bread looks like depends on whether you are hungry or not.
Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
For those who realize that everything is from God, everything is the same.
If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.
If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.
World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters.
What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.
It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.
A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice.
Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing.
We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.
There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.
What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you.