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The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.
Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.
Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, /May be refin'd and join th' angelic train.
When civic leaders are in love with their cities they are listened to; they are credible.
Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.
Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others
This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.
Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.
I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.
Some men live with an invisible limp, stagger, or drag a leg. Their sons are often angry.
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.
Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.
Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.
Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.
Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.
... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.
A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world
The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness
You have done it by being yourself. Perhaps that is what being a friend means, after all.
It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you
Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.
This is Now. Now is, all there is. Don't wait for Then; strike the spark, light the fire.
Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.
Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets The moon sets But they are not gone.
There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.
Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.
When you see the setting, wait for the rising. Why worry about a sunset or a fading moon?
Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“ so your life will stay fresh.
You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.
And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.
The case for meat-eaters - if eating meat is a sin, then why are some plants carnivorous?
For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world.
The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.
No one Shall hunger: Man shall spend equally. Our goal which we compel: Man shall be man.
The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.
If I lie down on my bed I must be here, But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.
I was always a happy and loving person. Many would say that I was living an idyllic life.
Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little?
Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.