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Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life.
The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit.
I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.
My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.
All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand
No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.
Pathmaker, there is no path; You make the path by walking, By walking you make the Path
The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.
What once was cuddled must learn to kiss The cold wonn's mouth. That's all the mystery.
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
What is all our knowledge worth? We do not even know what the weather will be tomorrow.
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.
A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude problem
I try to find creative ways to put ideas out to make the ground fertile for organizers.
Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.
A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.
All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.
Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful.
I don’t understand people, never will. It looks like I got to travel pretty much alone.
the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.
people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.
young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.
I went home each night dizzy and sick. He was murdering me with the sound of his voice.
Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.
It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.
Flowers produce an effect on me which can only be produced in an equal degree by music.
Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?
What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.
we wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than a fire of conflagration.
Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.
It's such a foolish thing to argue about names, when what we're doing is all one thing.
One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.
You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.
To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child Is the secret of chivalry.