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In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.
To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.
O youth whose hope is high, Who dost to Truth aspire, Whether thou live or die, O look not back nor tire.
Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where.
When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.
Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?
Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!
Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.
All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.
Lovers have heartaches That can't be cured by drugs Or sleep, Or games, But only by seeing their beloved.
And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.
Give yourself completely to the one you call God. If you are not doing it you are wasting your time here.
I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.
If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road.
‎There is a place where voices sing your beauty, A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.
I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.
We can't find the truth listening to our own voice's echo. We can find ourselves only in someone's mirror
Love is the experience that others are not others. Beauty is the experience that objects are not objects.
Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.
Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.
The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies-- You are my deepening skies; Give me your stars to hold
I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it.
Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal
To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical.
When we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred.
My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.
The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.
I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old.
Too many tongues have gates which fly apart Too easily, and care for many things That don't concern them.
There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society.
Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all that glisters gold.
I love thee - I love thee, 'Tis all that I can say, It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the day.
It was not in the winter Our loving lot was cast! It was the time of roses, We plucked them as we passed!
One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard.
Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.