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When you write for children, don't write for children. Write from the child in you.
It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.
Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish
To be truly alive is to feel one's ultimate existence within one's daily existence.
We should be suspicious when God's call conforms so neatly to our own inclinations.
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.
The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss.
For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.
For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.
Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.
In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.
The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.
Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?
To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.
Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.
How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?
I look in the mirror. There's me. What's in the mirror is not real. So am I unreal?
I think, at the heart of the idea of American democracy, there is something tender.
On the day that you were born, you began to die. Do not waste a single moment more!
Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.
The photograph is married to the eye, Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth.
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.
Because you aren't afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
Don't give up, what've you do; eyes front, head high to the finish. See it through!
And you can win, though you face the worst, if you feel that you're going to do it.
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Of all our sunny world, i wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself
I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.
Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre
The only people I really hate are servants. They're not really human beings at all.
Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.
A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.
No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
Today in my heart a vague trembling of stars and all roses are as white as my pain.
The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.
Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.
Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.
Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.
Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.
The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.
When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.
I was raised by the song Of the murmuring grove And loving I learned Among Flowers.