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Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.
What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.
The dream Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East, Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.
The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.
Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.
Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.
The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.
My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin web.
I was not ever hitchhiking alone. I've done solo train trips but I've never driven myself alone.
If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others.
Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything.
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.
Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.
I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.
The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.
Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
I love the clouds... the clouds that pass by... over there... over there... those lovely clouds!
Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank.
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing
Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.
Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.
Only the impossible has any real charm; the possible has been vulgarized by happening too often.
I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.
Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.
It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things And even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?
Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.
We are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story.
Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies.
I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet.
Many times I have written something, and after it was published, I understood what I was saying.
If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
Go to the Martin Beck Theatre and watch Katherine Hepburn run the gamut of emotions from A to B.
The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.
In just - Spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee