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And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew...so dear, So fresh, so fleeting
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.
They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.
Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.
they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine
Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous.
I was kind of a weird homie; I was a weird kid. Nobody in my family loved books. I'm the only one.
To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.
But maybe, underneath, she loves him too much. Maybe it's her excessive love that pushes him away.
They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.
In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.
The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.
To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.
In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.
In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.
How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.
It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.
Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.
Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?
There must be a mirror to show the soul to itself before the soul can begin to gather its courage.
All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne.
I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.
Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
If living on fruits and water is of superior merit, monkeys and fish will go to heaven before men.
One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.
Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.
When many little people in many little places do many little things, then the whole world changes.
I hope I inspire people to dream bigger than what they are living, but a dream within their reach.
The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.
It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand
In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]
Medicines may be necessary. Flowers lift the heart. But your smile is the best restorative of all.
One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.
I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.
God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.
In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.