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To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.
Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth.
The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.
If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help.
The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty. [The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.]
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome. [Though a lie be well dressed, it is ever overcome.]
I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.
I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.
Who is moving in the distance? It is the clock's pendulum, Hired by the god of death To measure life.
Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days
The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in place.
Many of our problems with anger occur when we choose between having a relationship and having a self.
The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.
The things that concern us during the day are going to influence what we experience during the night.
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.
He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.
Escape from the power of the hunting pack, and to know that wisdom is best and beauty sheer holiness.
Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit.
The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]
When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.
Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.
Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]
Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.
I wasn't part of any sixties movement. I'm skeptical of movements. I'm part of the times that I'm in.
I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.
Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.
Quick as a hummingbird...she darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly dipping into the flowers of my heart.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.
If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
I asked the Mesquite coach who he thought the best team in Mesquite is. He said they were about even.
There is no paradise, no place of true completion that does not include within its walls the unknown.
The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us.
Let it come, as it will, and don't be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless, so let evening come.
Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.
Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.
How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.
There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.
The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others.
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.
These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.
I've always lived all over the place, and left Manchester the minute I was old enough to steal a car.
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.