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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle
Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.
Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.
As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.
Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.
Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.
Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons. More than we experienced has gone by.
You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness.
For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.
It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
Once more consider, there is nothing, but heaven, worth setting our hearts upon.
As pain tells us of the need for healing, worry tells us of the need for prayer.
By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.
So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!
Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.
All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.
For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.
As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.
When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder.
We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.
When the ocean surges, don't let me just hear it. Let it splash inside my chest!
If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold your whole life.
Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher.
When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.
Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.
Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean.
Your task? To work with all the passion of your being to acquire an inner light.
Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.
Come on sweetheart let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me
Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring.
Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?
O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.
Love’s secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers, “Here I am!”
if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow
Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.