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She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.
I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges.
All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.
There is a deity within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated.
We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.
If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty.
You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must. [Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.]
Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.
She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
A nothing we were, are, shall remain, flowering: the nothing--, the no one's rose.
The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.
Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.
Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.
A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.
Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.
I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.
Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error.
Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.
He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
For of all hard things to bear and grin, / The hardest is knowing you're taken in.
Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither.
O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.
Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final
I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.
I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big.
He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all.
So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in.
I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.
What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience
I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.
It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.
We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.
I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.
As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.
God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod.
Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep.
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?
Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.