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But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside
A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.
Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant.
I watch the clouds as I see them in pomp advancing, pursuing the fallen sun.
Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.
The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?
Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives my green age.
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion.
The sweet small clumsy feet of april came into the ragged meadow of my soul.
You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside.
I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.
Life isn't all beer and skittles; few of us have touched a skittle in years.
I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.
A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
In chambers deep, Where waters sleep, What unknown treasures pave the floor.
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.
In order for poetry to exist there has to be not-poetry to contrast it with.
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?
Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want.
Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.
No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.
To will what God doth will, that is the only science That gives us any rest.
Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
O that it might remain eternally green, The beautiful time of youthful love.
Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.
Autumn resumes the land, ruffles the woods with smoky wings, entangles them.
The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.
In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way.
There's many a white hand holds an urn With lovers' hearts to dust consumed.
Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know your selfe.
A verse may find him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice.
No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.
Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
Old praise dies, unlesse you feede it. [Old praise dies unless you feed it.]