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There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.
Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?
People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.
I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
My trouser needs are simple: a narrow leg in a dark colour, with jean detailing.
If there's a gene, I got it from my ma. Her writing has this effortless quality.
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?
As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too.
God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.
His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.
He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken.
When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today.
Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.
For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.
Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth.
Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.
The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.
He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.
Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet.
I had been imprisoned three times and had twice been incarcerated in a madhouse.
No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.
Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat., Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]
A man's word Is believed just to the extent of the wealth in his coffers stored.
When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won't greet twice.
As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.
Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.
Understand, it's never been easy to live, when we're trying to escape ourselves.
You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.
Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond.