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Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.
Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!
When first you enter Wisdom's sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there.
Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.
As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.
The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.
Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.
For me, religiosity is ... the constant remembrance of the presence of the soul.
Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone
Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.
...Lovers are Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot Of their misdeeds.
Honour and profit lie not in one sacke. [Honour and profit lie not in one sack.]
When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.
Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.
Womenfolk raised me and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home
What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.
O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a world in the embrace of God!
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say, a hero.
To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood.
The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul.
In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray.
It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.
God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.
Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.
Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.
A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.
Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.
Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.
The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.
Columbus's doom-burdened caravels Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?
A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.
Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.
It starts with organizing the corruption and it ends with organizing the terror.
Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.