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Forget diamonds or dogs—a girl or boy's best friend is always a high-powered weapon.
The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.
Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. There is nothing to do but be.
Just stand aside and watch yourself go by; Think of yourself as 'he' instead of 'I'.
I must not be selfless: develop a sense of self. A solidness that can't be attacked.
The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.
Let me sit in a flowerpot, The spiders won't notice. My heart is a stopped geranium.
Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.
The biggest fool is he who has learned much, taught much, and is still discontented.
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.
For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb.
Beauty's witching sway is now to me a star that's fallen-a dream that's passed away.
Without the smile from partial beauty won, O what were man? - a world without a sun.
Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
Words slip into a language the way white-green vines slide between slats in a fence.
I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director. 'Poet' covers it all for me.
It's been an obsession with me from childhood, the horrors of the twentieth century.
As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.
Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.
You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
Recognition of one's fellows is distorted when money is prioritized as value itself.
A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.
We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers!
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they're glad to see you.
Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.
Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one
Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.
For time is inches And the heart's changes, Where ghost has haunted Lost and wanted.
The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.
Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.
The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind.
What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.
And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.
Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.
Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
Often try what weight you can support, And what your shoulders are too weak to bear.
And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.
If you have formed a circle to go into,Go into it yourself and see how you would do.
O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?
I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.
There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring.
I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again.
Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.
I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart. . . .
beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.