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Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs.
My sympathies are Left. On paper and in the soul. But not in my heart or my guts.
Nothing is better for being Eternal Nor so white as the white that dies of a day.
I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.
The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me.
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?
Our biggest moral debt is to the environment. Take-take-take, nothing given back.
I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.
The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled shoes! Denmark's sanctuaried Jews!
Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.
Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.
Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die.
I survived, carried on, glad to be like a weed, a wild red poppy, rooted in life.
The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.
There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.
I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.
I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.
Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.
Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.
Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.
The U.S. has historically been the world's largest contributor to climate change.
The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd.
Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words and not one of them can save me.
When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.
All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.
The only way I can distinguish proper from improper fractions is by their actions
Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.
Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.
There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys.
Suppressed pain chokes us; in our breasts It surges, adding ever to its strength.
What the people of the world want most and have always wanted is bread and peace.
A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.
Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned
My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.
If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless
What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick!
Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.