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Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.
What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.
Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.
I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.
Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger.
Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.
Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people.
I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.
Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans.
Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.
I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.
All you violated ones with gentle hearts; You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.
The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.
We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory.
Women love a sick child or a healthy animal; A man who is both itches them like an incubus.
The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, "I do not love thee."
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.
I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny.
I know the sag of the unfinished poem. And I know the release of the poem that is finished.
I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.
Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.
WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay.
Shall we go dance the hay, the hay? Never pipe could ever play Better shepherd's roundelay.
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
A thing which fades With no outward sign - Is the flower Of the heart of man In this world!
The sick mind can not bear anything harsh. [Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]
God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.
It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.
In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.
Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.
Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.
The goddess has never been lost. It is just that some of us have forgotten how to find her.
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.