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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.
Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.
All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.
Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.
There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.
Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.
Many of the poems weave autobiographical elements with fabular or mythic materials.
He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.
Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.
What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.
The stars are pears that no one can reach, even for a wedding. Perhaps for a death.
Maybe, although my heart is a kitten of butter, I am blowing it up like a zeppelin.
The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.
I like you; your eyes are full of language." [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]
To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love.
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
I was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly.
The technology life cycle has three stages: Hype, disillusionment, and application.
Cherish the people you love, because you never know when Allah will take them back.
Many people feel that unions aren't militant enough for them and don't do anything.
Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
...others, with halos shaped like rollercoasters you'd stand in line to ride twice.
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today.
But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting.
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!
Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
When a singer puts his hand on his heart, it means usually, I will always love you!
Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.
I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.
I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.
I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.
There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on.
Each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.
And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.
Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.
Winter's done, and April's in the skies, Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!