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He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.
We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.
Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.
The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so.
How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.
The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.
A much underrated garment, the jegging: they never need ironing and they hold their colour.
Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.
Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.
From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.
Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days.
For as fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.
And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.
A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.
Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.
I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.
I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies
You curl your hair and paint your face. Not I: I am curled by the wind, painted by the sun.
Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free.
Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
I live or die for hip-hop and it's a beautiful form but you're a writer first and foremost.
If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.
It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.
The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.
A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.