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In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.
The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home.
Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.
There is a restless identity in the New World. The New World needs an identity without guilt or blame.
I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.
One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.
It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.
Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.
In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard, Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure
True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; They hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.
Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.
Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man.
To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity.
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen.
The world is a shoulder of dark meat (black flesh of an old mule). And the light is on the other side.
Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.
I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.
The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.
A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.
Tis easiest dealing with the firmest mind-- More just when it resists, and, when it yields, more kind.
Life without a friend is death without a witnesse. [Life without a friend is death without a witness.]
In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king. [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed is king.]
I will look at the footprints going in and out of the water and dream up a small blue good to talk to.
My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.
When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space. (Cape Hatteras
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
O lovely eyes of azure, Clear as the waters of a brook that run Limpid and laughing in the summer sun!
The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.
The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.
Love, why have you sought the horde of spearsmen, why the tent Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?
With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.
Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.
The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No; do the work you know, and tarry where you are.
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]