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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
If your heart has grown distant from Allah, the real question is who moved?
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
Half of the ills we hoard within our hearts Are ills because we hoard them.
If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.
If you are one of the truly elect, be careful how you attain your eminence.
We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other.
my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.
I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.
there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting
don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.
Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.
Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.
This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.
A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates.
One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.
Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?
The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse.
A moment's fruition of a true felicity is enough and eternity not too much.
In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him.
The greatest luxury of having money should be not having to worry about it.
Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.
To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.
All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.
Every day, every day I hear enough to fill a year of nights with wondering.
The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself.
If you talk about language in the Caribbean, you must relate it to history.
Innocence is suffering and the loss of that innocence is something to fear.
I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.
Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.
One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.
Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints Of tentative and half-soiled tints
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.
I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.
I cannot find my way: there is no star In all the shrouded heavens anywhere
Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.
What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.