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I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.
A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.
Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands weaving my destiny.
I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.
To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.
Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!
Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world.
It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
Let all thy joys be as the month of May,And all thy days be as a marriage day.
In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.
God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength.
Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life.
I like to hear the sound of form, and I like to hear the sound of it breaking.
Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.
The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.
What use is it that knowledge mounts? It's knowing something good that counts.
A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.
It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly.
Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason
A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.
Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
In sports and journeys men are knowne. [In sports and journeys men are known.]
The Rich knowes not who is his friend. [The rich knows not who is his friend.]
Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.
A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.
The way you get to know yourself is by the expression on other people's faces.
I don't see any independent position that I'm in; it's rather inter-dependent.
I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
All things are plotting to make us whole / All things conspire to make us one.
Your life within God's arms, Your dance within God's arms, Is already Perfect!
We must leave these beginnings, beings, believings- man, what are you growing?
The trouble with men is that they are mean-they may mean, but they don't move.
What we hear while we are asleep continues to resonate with us upon awakening.
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light.
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.
I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.
Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.
He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.