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Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.
I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.
Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.
When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst.
The day of death ... is one of the five mysteries, the key of which God holds in his own hands.
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.
Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.
Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.
I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.
Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.
Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.
With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.
People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.
I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.
Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.
What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.
Whosoever obeyeth the devil, casteth himself down: for the devil may suggest, compel he cannot.
I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.
Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.
He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.
Much we learn only to forget it again, to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it
Awake thee, my Lady-Love! Wake thee, and rise! The sun through the bower peeps Into thine eyes.
The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale. [The dog that licks ashes trust not with meal.]
You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.
Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.
Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.
The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.
There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy.
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.
Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.
Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.
Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]