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I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.
The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.
I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.
Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.
Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.
Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.
Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.
When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing.
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
I follow my law and fulfil it all duly and look! when your doubt runneth high North points to the needle!
Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.
In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.
A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.
Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.
And then--a Day as huge As Yesterdays in pairs, Unrolled its horror in my face-- Until it blocked my eyes
The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
Verde que te quiero verde. Verde viento. Verde ramas. Green I love you green. Green Wind. Green branches.
Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.
There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.
Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.
Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.
But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?
My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.
Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.
By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many. [The little cannot be great unless he devour many.]
This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.
There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.
Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales, All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky.
When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.
Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.
For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old.
Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.