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Men ignorant of letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazy.
But what doesn’t die is the love we give to others. There is no end to that.
We can't continue to be like this. Who am I? Your fiancée or your concubine?
Sometimes the most helpful thing you can do is to stop trying to be helpful.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid
When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.
I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.
How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?
I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.
Every concrete object has abstract value, is timeless in the dream parallel.
A slight wind shakes the seed-pods my thoughts are spent as the black seeds.
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.
Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability.
Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.
Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.
Change generally pleases the rich. [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.]
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help.
All night, my face next to your mouth, I hold my breath, listening to yours.
If we had the right words, if we had the language, we would need no weapons.
It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss.
No love is Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves' boundaries.
Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.
Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.
To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.
None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.
Dripping rain like golden honey- And the sweet earth flying from the thunder
We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.
There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.
All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.
I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.
How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree
The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.
Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.
Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.