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But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.
Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.
Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.
There's no cure, except the retreat into love, For the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts.
Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.
Life s picture is constantly undergoing change. The spirit beholds a new world every moment.
O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart's wings, open my ears to your voice in all things.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.
I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.
This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.
Those loves which are for the sake of a colour are not love. In the end they are a disgrace.
What is the mirror of Being? Non-being. Bring non-being as your gift, if you are not a fool.
Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.
I thought when love for you died, I should die. It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.
He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.
Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.
To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.
How can one dive into the intricate mystery of man when One doesn't see where One is located
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.
I've been shot down so many times, I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.
This bridge will take you halfway there - the last few steps you will have to take yourself.
Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.
Lovers forget that after marriage and kids, it's no longer a 'relationship' - It's a family.
Human beings tend to be conservative, so if you lie, you'll probably be closer to the truth.
We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.
I love the house we're in, but at the same time, I'm hooked on the romance of house-hunting.
Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.
And the rain was brain colored and the thunder sounded like something remembering something.
If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.
Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.
See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do.
I tried to speak in a cool, calm way, but the zombie rose up in my throat and choked me off.
I have been holding a dialogue with myself and girding myself to stand fast without running.
Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.
I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.
After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight.
Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.
I was brought up on music hall, and at the same time, I was studying Greek at the age of 12.
Your heart is the beacon, your heart is the storm. Dare to embrace it; you'll never be torn.
That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.