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Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times
But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.
Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.
If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.
Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea.
Like a page dipped in ink, your cuff's in my coffee. / You have something to tell with unbuttoned sleeves.
I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.
Most of the people I write about I'm still in touch with, so I would be loath to make up stuff about them.
Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned--- if not enough else--- to live with my eyes open.
The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.
I guess I'm a bit of a projector - my emotions tend to get translated into different, fanciful situations.
We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn.
Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood.
People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music.
Teddy Roosevelt spoke softly and carried a big stick; Donald Trump speaks loudly and carries a big shtick.
President Obama contends that charges he is "not really an American" have been trumped up by you-know-who.
These are clearly the end times, and now we understand why the prophets warned us about the Trump of Doom.
I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.
Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.
The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.
Bears being sent through the mail should never be squashed up to make them fit. It gives them indigestion.
Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree.
Open your eyes! The world is still intact; it is as pristine as it was on the first day, as fresh as milk!
There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.
I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear.
He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be.
As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.
I wonder love can have already set In dreams, when we've not met More times than I can number on one hand.
Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick; I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick.
How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons
Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen
To live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky
Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.
Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed.
Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.
One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'
Oh well, I will say here, knowing each man, let you find a good wife too, and love her as hard as you can.
I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.
It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.
A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.
Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own.
Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
Behold a silly tender babe,In freezing winter night,In homely manger trembling lies;Alas! a piteous sight.
in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.