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People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
I learned snails don't have ears. They live in silence. They go slowly. Slowly, slowly in silence.
They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.
Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.
To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.
When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.
What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt.
Only brooms Know the devil Still exists, That the snow grows whiter After a crow has flown over it
This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.
Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.
All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer.
One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.
It is difficult to be creative and enthusiastic about anything for which we do not feel affection.
The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.
Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart; Push in their tides.
Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?
Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.
I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm.
Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said.
We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection.
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.
Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.
Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also.
When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist
Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?
Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee
In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse. [In the husband wisdom, in the wife gentleness.]
Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another. [Disgraces are like cherries, one draws another.]
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.
Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea.
In this mirror, I am enclosed a live and real as you. Imagine angels and not like the reflections.
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
The happiest people are focused on living their own life (not someone else's) as well as possible.
If you pursue a distancer, he or she will distance more. Consider it a fundamental law of physics.