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The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.
Oh for a single hour of that Dundee Who on that day the word of onset gave!
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.
Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.
Without movement there is no Life...We should use our energy to the fullest.
Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture and a mirror for us
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.
The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.
She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.
he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it
Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space Come once a day to suffocate the sight.
It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
I’m moved by everything broken and crippled. Since that’s how we really are.
We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.
Yet love enters my blood like an I.V., dripping in its little white moments.
If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
If someone didn't believe in me that would kind of be a compliment in a way.
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.
My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.
The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.
Hikmah (Wisdom) is knowing when to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.
I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and some minor love.
That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.
of rhythm is image / of image is knowing / of knowing there is / a construct
The cool blade Severs between coolness, apple-rind Compelling a recognition.
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise.
The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.