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When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world around you will be a sort of salvation.
I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?
Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.
Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
One of the first things a typical lesbian learns is that there is no such thing as a typical lesbian.
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried
There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance; else noise of wars would unmake heaven.
Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
I thought, "The flowers, save the flowers..." I never thought for a second we wouldn't save the people
if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.
Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.
No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God.
Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition?
There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
In the world I am Always a stranger I do not understand its language It does not understand my silence
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them.
What I wanted to do is put forth, musically, the idea that there's hope that we can change the system.
Repeating the name of the Beloved I have become the Beloved myself. Whom shall I call the Beloved now?
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.
And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.
i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer
my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.
First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
Tell me, ye wingèd winds That round my pathway roar, Know ye not some spot Where mortals weep no more?
You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world
Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.
All throughout my work, even in the United States, I have worked with the greater Cambodian community.
What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.
Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.