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Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.
the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.
A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.
A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.
Lente, lente currite, noctis equi. Translation: Run slowly, slowly, horses of the night.
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense
The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.
The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]
The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]
Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses. Write not again, but come, sweet mate
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.
Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love.
As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.
To be honest, I've never had an easy relationship with being a writer, though I persist.
The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.
I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life.
I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.
Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade
I say as an expert, no one is faithful in love -Expertus dico, nemo est in amore fidelis
Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.
Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell
You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary
Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.
Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.
Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature.
Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.
Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.
You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
If there's another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.
But what would interest you about the brook, It's always cold in summer, warm in winter.