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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]
The world is on fire; time is a bomb. Ten thousand years are not enough When so much remains to be done
If society is a ship, it appears to many to be firmly at anchor in moral waters. Perhaps this isn't so.
He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.
The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.
Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.
Bathsheba! to whom none ever said scat- No worthier cat Ever sat on a mat, Or caught a rat. Requiescat!
My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.
I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you.
Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.
The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.
With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.
The government targets 'Anonymous' for the same reason it targets al-Qaida - because they're the enemy.
The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry.
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
A writer is seldom satisfied with the condition he finds himself in. We're all given to fretting a lot.
Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.
To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.
I work better the more I am confined and the less I am distracted. My ultimate place would be a closet.
I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days.
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
It's better to light a candle than to curse the dark In the eyes of the youth, there are question marks
Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.
Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.
Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.
When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.
The crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.
There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself.
Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]
I don't like being angry all the time; it's not good for me. I have to have serenity or else go to war.
The past has flown away. The coming month and year do not exist. Ours only is the present's tiny point.
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.
We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters.
... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.
The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.
The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.