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Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.
For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.
If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.
To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long.
No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.
Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time.
I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens.
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.
The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,Moves all the labouring surges of the world.
There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.
Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances.
Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.
Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.
The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.
Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job.
Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.
And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?
The white saucer like some full moon descends / At last from the clouds of the table above.
If the monkeys had been concerned only with monkey Beings they would never have become men.
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.
A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.
In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems.
There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.
Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.
There's nothing fair nor beautiful, but takes Something from thee, that makes it beautiful.
What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.
What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity.
An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.
The things I have are nameless, old and true; they may not be named; few may live and know.
Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.
However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.
All powerful money gives birth and beauty. [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.]
Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.
We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.
The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.