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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.
The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.
One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.
A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.
I was not content to just believe in Satan. I wanted to be his chief or staff.
We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.
Our way is where God knows And Love knows where: We are in Love's hand to-day.
A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]
My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.
I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.
A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.
I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.
Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"]
And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time.
I know sometimes, that all it takes to be invincible, is to know you are such.
The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.
A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.
I've grown tired of love You are the trouble with me I watch you walk right by
The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.
The man inside of woman ties a knot so that they will never again be separate.
The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.
When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything.
The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.
Some of my reactions are very Nigerian. I still believe that words are things.
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
Get rich if you're looking for a woman, Get pious if you're looking for a wife
Just because you forgot about your sins, doesn't mean they have been forgiven.
Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.