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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.
Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care.
Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.
It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.
You will not see that desire begets love, until it all flames into one concise and metallic blaze.
There is no man can take, there is no pool can slake, ultimately I am alone; ultimately I am done.
O happy, happy each man whom predestined fate leads to the holy rite of hill and mountain worship.
This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.
The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.
In spite of all their kind some elements of worth With difficulty persist here and there on earth.
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'.
I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem
To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.
It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.
It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel.
Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India.
To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.
Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night.
Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.
There is a certain sentimental vibe in my home town of Manchester, which you would sort of expect.
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also.
Let the thick curtain fall;I better know than allHow little I have gained,How vast the unattained.
In the beginning was the dog the real name of Jehovah is Rover. Adam's rib is buried in the garden
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.
We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.
No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.
The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]
One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art.
Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.
As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born
For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.
Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.
How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.