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Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.
I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart
Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.
Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.
Love is a circle that doth restless move in the same sweet eternity of love.
In fall-orbed glory, yonder moon divine, Rolls through the dark blue depths.
Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.
People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another.
Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?
Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.
Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.
Peace is wonderful, but / ecstatic dance is more fun / and less narcissistic
God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart.
No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.
Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.
Once we were particles of Light, now we are Beings of Light, radiating Love.
Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.
Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?
Whoever has Heart's doors wide open, could see the Sun itself in every atom.
My souls sits in silence, and then asks again, where are you in all of this?
We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.
O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.
The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.
To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.
Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.
I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.
Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.
The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.
The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.
I’ve had it with all stingy-hearted sons of bitches. A heart is to be spent.
Soundwaves. It’s the difference between one stillness and another stillness.
How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?
All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure.
Ploutos , no wonder mortals worship you: You are so tolerant of their sins !
Those are fools however learned Who have not learned to walk with the world.
When no food is given to the ear, Then let a little be given to the stomach.
How can kindliness rule that man Who eateth other flesh to increase his own?
The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.
From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.
A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
I think that, as you get older, you want to be freer rather than more bound.
For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.
Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.