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Talent--that is to say, the ability to see the world in a unique way--matures and grows in isolation.
He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful.
You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves.
From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
Separation isnt time or distance its the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords
At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]
Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.
With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.
Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.
Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
The babe is at peace within the womb, the corpse is at rest within the tomb. We begin in what we end.
How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
Since my return to America my Master, has at the desire of my friends in England given me my freedom.
Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!
To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.
Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.
our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong.
Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.
It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.
Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.
Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.
You are more valuable than both heaven and earth. What else can I say? You don’t know your own worth.
Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.
Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.
The satiated person and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread.
Pure souls, didn’t I tell you not to be seduced by this colorful world for I am the Ultimate Painter.
On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.
A lifetime without Love is of no account Love is the Water of Life Drink it down with heart and soul!
Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth.
Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains...
No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.
That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach; what is allotted you will find wherever you may be.
Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.
Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony
For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.
Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her
Ever since I was little, I’ve loved making hand-made cards and presents and arts & crafts for people.
I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.
Politics enter dangerous ground, when people proclaim there are simple answers for our complex world.