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The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.
Money. You don't know where it's been, but you put it where your mouth is. And it talks!
Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.
I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.
My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
Unlike Woody Allen, I would be happy to be part of any (poetry) club that would have me.
Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage
If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air.
I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.
We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.
An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.
Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.
He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.
The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.
I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass.
FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.
The Only Thing More Surprising Than the Chance She's Taking... Is Where It's Taking Her.
Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.
Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.
What is a church?Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.
With awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead.
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.
Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares. [Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.]
For a morning raine leave not your journey. [For a morning rain leave not your journey.]
When a friend askes, there is no to morrow. [When a friend asks, there is no to-morrow.]
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures.
God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage.
He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time.
Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.
Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.
I fear if I cannot think again, if my mind suddenly goes blank. It will be embarrassing.
Whole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person.
Differences don’t just threaten and divide us. They also inform, enrich, and enliven us.
He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil.
Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die.
It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.