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What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?
When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.
You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.
Animals were both the lives I took care of and the lives who took care of me.
Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be?
We want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny.
I was deeply infected with storytelling from the get go, and I truly love it.
The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.
I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.
I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.
Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
There is always an element of play in form, however 'serious' the expression.
Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness.
A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.
Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.
Along my journey / through this transitory world, / new year's housecleaning.
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate
Having my poems set to music by Eric Moe has completely knocked my socks off.
Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron 's struggle cease.
Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.
A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.
Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.
When you co-operate with an injustice, then a little bit of your spirit dies.
I don't know what it would have been like to grow up with a man in the house.
Every human being is a repeated question asked to the spirit of the Universe.
You knew you were an Arab if your ride form the airport was two dozen people.
The secret of marriage is thinking that your partner is better than yourself.
A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.
The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.
I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.
Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.
Leve fit quod bene fertur onus. The burden which is well borne becomes light.
If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.
Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause, With eloquence that's bought.
Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now.
Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.
We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.