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Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.
I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.
A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
I listen to everything from The Cure and The Clash to Prince and George Clinton.
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
The history, the root, the strength of my father is the strength we now rest on.
Love leads us into mystery where no one can say what comes next, or how, or why.
What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
In art, vitality is the chaotic initial state; beauty is the cosmic final state.
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.
I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.
I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.
the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.
My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.
Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free.
Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms.
An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.
The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.
Lord, I fashion dark gods, too, Daring even to give You Dark despairing features
Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.
Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words
He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.
There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.
Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx.
I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.
The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.
[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.
Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.
Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?
I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.