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Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.
A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.
Perfection seems sterile; It is final, no mystery in it; It's a product of an assembly line.
All dust is the same dust. Temporarily separated To go peacefully And enjoy the eternal nap.
Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.
The last cobwebs of fog in the black firtrees are flakes of white ash in the world's hearth.
Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.
This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
And if kisses in these words could travel too, Madam, you'd read this letter with your lips.
But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
What man that sees the ever-whirling wheel Of Change, the which all mortal things doth sway.
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.
The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
Hail, mute devil! You are the most intense animal. An eternal mystic of the fleshly inferno.
Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?
I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.
And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.
Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow; work with a stout heart and resolute will.
To know thyself--in others self-concern; Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!
Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.
One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
Ability comprehends the power of doing in general, without specifying the quality or degree.
I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms, For him that gazes or for him that farms.
O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights. [Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.]
There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
When age is jocond it makes sport for death. [When age is jocund, it makes sport for death.]
I dissolved, so white, so unapproachable, amid my white flame, in the whiteness of moonlight
What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land...
To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.
Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.
Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.