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Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.
That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.
A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.
I'm 100 percent Jewish by blood, but by education I'm nothing. By affiliation I'm nothing.
I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.
I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.
As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.
I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.
But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.
She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.
Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.
The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.
Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.
I can no longer say my love and your love; they are both alike in their perfect mutuality.
Poverty? Wealth? Seek neither -- / One causes swollen heads, / The other, swollen bellies.
I think that the richer and deeper documentation is on the web, the better off we all are.
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.
Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.
The saint and the sinner are twin brothers...one was born but the moment before the other.
Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?
Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.
These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.
Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.
I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.
That's why I'm not to be trusted. Because a wound to the heart is also a wound to the mind
Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.
Remember this: you can have justice, or you can have two dollars. But you can t have both.
You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.
A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice.
Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.
And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.
We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a writeched life
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world.
We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things.
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening.
I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.
I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.