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And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers
I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
Unconfusion submits its confusion to proof; it's not a Herod's oath that cannot change.
Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?
Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.
Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.
What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?
Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.
When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
The question is -- Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?
Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.
The personal revolution is far more difficult, and is the first step in any revolution.
It's not that every leaf must finally fall, it's just that we can never catch them all.
I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
You have to be true to your instinctive way of writing. You have to find your identity.
I don't climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself.
The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.
Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn't have missed it.
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.
Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds
I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!
I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.
May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith.
As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.
One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.
The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.
Some days, I'm as shallow as a baking pan, but I still stretch miles in all directions.
My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.
grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.
If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.
Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.
Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom
To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.
Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.