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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!
You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]
A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.
While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.
This idea of 'cool capitalism' is still capitalism. It doesn't matter if Elon Musk quotes Nas.
Sometimes my influences are really on my sleeve. So I just make sure to wear a lot of sleeves.
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
You are not broken. You break again and again because that's what breaking means. To be whole.
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
I abhor, too, the roaming lover, nor do I drink from every well; I loathe all things in common
A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.
I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.
I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.
Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify; A never dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky.
Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]
I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.
To reasoned people, almost everything is understandable, but evil is forever incomprehensible.
Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.
Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.
Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.
When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being.
I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.
My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains.
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.
All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed.
To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak.
The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other.
Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.
The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.
Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you.
Once I put down a color, I never cover it up. If you are born a musician, why become a banker?
Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living.
The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths.