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I gave my life to learning how to live. Now that I have organized it all ... it's just about over.
Voyager upon life's sea, To yourself be true, And whate'er your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe.
In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.
The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.
Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.
Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.
For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust
I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.
Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.
It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true.
I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address.
Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy & peaceful.
It took the whole of Creation to produce my foot, my each feather: now I hold Creation in my foot.
The jaws' hooked clamp and fangs Not to be changed at this date; A life subdued to its instrument.
Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can't read the address.
Baby bye Here's a fly, Let us watch him. you and I, How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls.
Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.
Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.
Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton.
Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.
As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.
What turned me into an environmentalist, on my eleventh birthday, was seeing the first strip mine.
If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.
And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind.
I say that Roger Casement Did what he had to do, He died upon the gallows But that is nothing new.
Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight.
Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse-- at least, blinded by the light, young love is.
It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.
Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
There can be no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love.
The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.
So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.
All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.
If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground
O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.
So doth the greater glory dim the less: A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by.
Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.
One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.