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Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.
Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.
I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.
I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.
Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.
Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.
Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.
It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven.
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.
Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out of cigarettes.
I'm clearer now in what I want to say, and I know better how to say just that.
Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community.
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.
Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.
If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
A whispering and watery Norfolk sound Telling of all the moonlit reeds around.
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
To approach a poem as if it is a puzzle to be understood is to miss the point.
I love being on my bike, but I don't consider that a sport: it's too pleasant.
I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.
Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray.
The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home.
I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again.
For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.
Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.
Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, And seal the hushed Casket of my Soul.
O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!
For love is mor than gold or gret richesse; Gold faileth ofte; love wol abyde.
So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.
Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.
Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light.
Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.