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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.
The mirror crack'd from side to side "The curse has come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott
I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.
The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt the impossible and possible.
Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.
But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.
Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
But whatever However Whenever this ends I want you to know That right now I love you forever
I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.
The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.
I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow?
When I lie down to love, old dwarf heart shakes her head. Like an imbecile she was born old.
Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
It's been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven't come down.
The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.
I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.
I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
Being rejected from something good just means that Allah is pointing you to something better
Stop congregating in the valley just because an echo sounds good when it agrees with itself.
One cannot have "success" in poetry. If I wanted to be successful, I'd have become a lawyer.
It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
How are his poems?" "He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.
The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.
my hands dead my heart dead silence adagio of rocks the world ablaze that's the best for me.
WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH.
Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.
Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
Childhood, who like an April morn appears, Sunshine and rain, hopes clouded o'er with fears.
The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second
How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?
The rose saith in the dewy morn, I am most fair; Yet all my loveliness is born Upon a thorn.
Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?
The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.
I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.
I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.
Whether we stay or whether we go - to be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made.
I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.