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Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.
Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.
In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet.
The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.
One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.
Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.
Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.
You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.
A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.
If you don't like The Ramones, you don't like rock 'n'roll. They're like The Beach Boys without the sea.
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!
Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.
If you will be a traveler, have always two bags very full. That is one of patience and another of money.
What miracle of weird transforming Is this wild work of frost and light, This glimpse of glory infinite?
Truth is one; And, in all lands beneath the sun, Whoso hath eyes to see may see The tokens of its unity.
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.
Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces.
These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.
Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.
Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?
Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.
Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.
The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.
The goal for me is to be as expansive as possible, and the Library of Congress offers so many resources.
The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes.
Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Love is life sharing, not for hurt, Love is alive both not ambiguous. Love is whole life, not an affair.
I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.
The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.
The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
During grade school, we moved to a white, working-class suburb in San Diego, and there were no Mexicans.
Leaders never have to ask the people to, 'Come follow me.' The people believe just by watching his lead.
Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.
There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.
Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstools which resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous?