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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.
I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.
The tiniest dream that you make happen is worth more than the biggest dream that you never attempt.
We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity
I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.
And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.
You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair.
Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.
The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.
When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.
As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.
Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person
It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world.
The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.
God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies.
If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.
There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument.
The insect-youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon!
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!
Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.
I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.
Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty.
To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.
A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.
In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or today.
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too.
There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became.
Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this Than any other thing!
Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?
We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.
Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.
Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.
O heart, we are old; The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.
Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.
A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.