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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.
The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.
Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy sideThy every action let the goddess guide.
I have nowhere to go. The swift satellites show The clock of my whole being is slow.
Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening.
The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.
Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.
A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.
There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time.
Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man.
All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know
When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.
Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!
That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.
O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?
It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are strange as hell.
Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.
The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.
Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.
I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.
You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.
Sometimes the shadow stays next to the Light. Sometimes it disappears into the Light
Iron was black and sheenless, but cleansing and polishing washed away its blackness.
Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives.
Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.
Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him
Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.
The kitchen of the body darkens the lives of lovers. Fasting came to enlighten them.
Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe.
All because of love when it arrived my temporal life from then on changed to eternal
Oh lovers, where are you going? Who are you looking for? Your beloved is right here.
Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine?
Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all.
Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!
Th aspirer, once attaind unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up.
Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.