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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
A coward is the kindest animal; 'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight.
What airs outblown from ferny dells And clover-bloom and sweet brier smells.
You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.
It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.
The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth.
Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.
Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.
What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?
Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.
He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life.
What provides you with subject matter is your own language - and that's all.
To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.
Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author.
And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.
A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.
When you come to a place where you have to left or right, go straight ahead.
The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.
To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.
The only time a juggler / Appeals to me / Is when I see him / Miss the ball.
Every vivid memory holds some essential truth about your vision of the world
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be!
The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country
I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.
Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.
The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day.
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
I don't like to see people get kicked around. You have to stand up for them.
A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.
I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.
I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.
Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.
When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.
When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.
The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.
I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.
Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.
Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.