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My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself!
Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown.
Red serpents, fiery forms, and yelling hags, Fit company for mad adventurers.
Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.
The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.
Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.
Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today.
A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.
Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.
The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.
Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other.
I would like to step out of my heart and go walking beneath the enormous sky.
If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.
Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness
I miss my mattress when I am gone; It's one thing I've made an impression on.
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.
Speak to your people as to men that must be awakened, either here or in hell.
Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it.
Think small.... If you can't think small, try philosophy or social criticism.
I am the spirit of the morning sea, I am the awakening and the glad surprise.
How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.
There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget.
Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
I have lived, And seen God's hand thro a life time, And all was for the best.
But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
For hard it is to keep from being King When it's in you and in the situation.
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
For words of rapture groping, they"Never such love," swore "ever before was!"
All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking
Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution.
Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.
If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.
I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.
Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.
The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.
There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually about love and the way.
Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.
Don't look to anyone for your needs, for the One who created you, waters you.
You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.
Why are you knocking at every door ? Go, knock at the door of your own heart.
Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.
Everyone turns toward someone. Look for one scarred by the King's polo stick.
Oh Soul! You worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.