Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.
Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?
He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy
No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.
blind wantons like the gulls who scream And rip the edge off any ideal or dream.
It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.
Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?
Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.
I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.
Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.
I'm gonna spread out over America intrude my proud blackness all over the place.
How can I no longer bear my weary doom? Alas! what have I gain'd for all I lost?
Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.
The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.
Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.
I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.
O cricket from your cherry cry No one would ever guess How quickly you must die.
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.
Was Christ a man like us?-Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he!
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.
making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.
People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!
Trump appeals to right-wingnuts because when the going gets tough, they wig out.
There's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself.
Don't sit there and complain. Rub your hands together and figure out what to do.
I was very unhappy at one point and dealt with my unhappiness by hitting people.
For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
The time has come, everybody lie down so you won't get hurt when the sun bursts.
My mother only said: Thank God the scorpion picked on me and spared my children.
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.
To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.
The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]
Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]