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The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices
It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.
Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.
I guess that when you invade a nation of warlords, you end up having to deal with warlords.
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.
With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face!
I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.
You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.
Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth.
Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.
There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.
Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.
Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.
Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
If you're imaginatively responsible to the place you live in, you understand the watershed.
When words we want, love teacheth to indite; And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
We credit most our sight; one eye doth please Our trust farre more than ten eare-witnesses.
With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out.
Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted.
A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.
Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better
Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.
Once you have met a true human being, Let him not disappear from the horizon of your HEART.
Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face, for i see you there, my dear.
Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water.
Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you.
Be watchful - the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.
Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.
Make my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God.
How far is the light of the moon from the moon? How far is the taste of candy from the lip?
Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.
Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.
Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that can't be spoken.
Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times, but be faithful now and endure, pale lover.
Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Love sells the proud heart's citadel to fate.
Down the blue night the unending columns press In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.