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As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.
I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain.
There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.
Next to of course god America i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry.
Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate
And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.
Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; 'tis but what we in our autumn do.
To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.
I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.
A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.
I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality.
You are always trying to make something that is more than the sum of its parts.
Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part.
Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
We cry for mercy to the next amusement, The next amusement mortgages our fields
We are not all great because we are inspired, but we feel great because we are.
Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.
We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.
I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.
That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be one hundred secrets
Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.
Fire is fed by fire. The same small flame destroys Two stalks of wheat at once.
The groom is like a flower of gold. When he walks, blossoms at his feet unfold.
Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
A new beauty has been added to the splendor of the world - the beauty of speed.
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
It's hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my father's equal in any way.
Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.
I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
Fate always wins, for our own heart within us Imperiously furthers its designs.
No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.
Range after range of mountains. Year after year after year. I am still in love.
What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.
God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison.
The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
A horse stumbles that hath foure legges. [A horse stumbles that has four legs.]
He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.
In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle. [In the house of the fiddler all fiddle.]