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Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer — and non-disturbance.
I will never become a horse trainer, a biologist, a person competent with a hammer. My loves were my loves.
Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.
Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).
Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.
He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots.
Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.
I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave.
Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed.
Where I grew up, the one unmistakable sign of homosexuality was to betray some interest in your appearance.
How happy the lover, How easy his chain, How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover He sighs not in vain.
I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one.
Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.
Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."
The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.
But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments.
I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.
The little Road says, Go; The little House says, Stay; And oh, it's bonny here at home, But I must go away.
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?
Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?
I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.
What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.
An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.
I think that the special thing about radio is the off switch. If something's not pleasing you, turn it off.
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.