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If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.
Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.
All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.
'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.
Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise
Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.
The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.
I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.
When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.
And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul?
Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.
Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.
Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.
We dare not forget, lest we become a nation that does not only not know its roots but where it’s going
Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.
I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand
Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
Every delay that postpones our joys, is long. [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]
So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.
It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.
Grant me profits only, grant me the joy of profit made, and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer!
Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative
That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.
We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own.
How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.
Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP
As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.
Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.
Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection
Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand.
Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)
If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer.
Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely.
The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a world from the smallest part of a thing.
Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.
Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again.
The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.