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The terrible beast, that no one may understand, Came to my side, and put down his head in love.
O God, in the dream the terrible horse began To paw at the air, and make for me with his blows.
I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
Yesterday doesn't even look the same, and the only thing more beautiful than today is tomorrow.
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.
The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.
Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside.
Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.
Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.
When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body's been.
When it's over I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
What is God? God is the great life that fills the universe; it is the principle of life aswell.
O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain!
I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.
The public, regardless of its social origin, likes, above all, that which is easily accessible.
The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?
Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves.
Shall we go learn to kiss, to kiss? Never heart could ever miss Comfort, where true meaning is.
Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.
Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]
The woman who died night after night and her dying was a long goodbye, a train that never left.
If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
When you died I didn't weep nor dream but knew you like a god breathe in each healing we begin.
Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots.
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.
If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.
Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.
Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.
True creative cities produce the legacy of an idea that does what funding cannot do: to foster.
Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.
In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.
Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief.
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.
A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.
It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin.
Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew.
In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.
And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?