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The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
Light was first Through the Lord's word Named day: Beauteous, bright creation!
To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.
And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness.
I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them.
Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.
I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.
Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.
But what is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake?
It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.
Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.
They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.
Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.
Blessed are the peacemakers, For they have freed themselves from sinful wrath.
My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown.
To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.
Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something that is in process.
There's no fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.
Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.
Really unreal world, will you perhaps do the breathing for me while I am away?
The proof of a man is the danger test, That shows him up at his worst or best.
Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.
To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.
Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.
A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.
Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.
Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.
It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.
The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.