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Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.
It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.
I am pleased that Prince Charles and Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles have decided to take this important step.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That. Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That.
You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.
Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.
To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!
Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.
When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.
As the palm-tree standeth so straight and so tall, The more the hail beats, and the more the rains fall.
The golden moment when I’m not yet awake enough to remember that there are things I would rather forget.
Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.
I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.
Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.
I am still raw. I say I may be back. You know what lies are for. Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet.
If I was going to fall, I would hang on to my small comforts, at least, for as long as I possibly could.
The deeps are cold: In that darkness camaraderie does not hold: Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.
One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.
Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail, So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Hebe's here, May is here! The air is fresh and sunny; And the miser-bees are busy Hoarding golden honey.
Love! the surviving gift of Heaven, The choicest sweet of Paradise, In life's else bitter cup distilled.
Genuine art and business are the ultimate partnership toward catalyzing social evolution and well-being.
Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.
A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
The time of wisdom cannot be measured, and for me, wisdom is the garden. There is no time in the garden.
Above the forest of the parakeets, A parakeet of parakeets prevails, A pip of life amid a mort of tails.
The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States.
I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.
If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?
Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.
Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.
O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one.
Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.