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Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
Unfortunately, in the world today, we have dogmatic people entering into politics. I don't think the two mix.
I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.
Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.
If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.
Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven.
It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'
Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room.
When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.
Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.
A chainsaw's God's way of evening out the playing field between you and everything, even the invisible stuff.
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.
not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest.
I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.
I have seen the Lady April bringing the daffodils, Bringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain.
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.
Strange with women when They find out you love men More than they Never let you kiss them On the mouth again.
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.
I belong to Russian literature, but I am an American citizen, and I think it's the best possible combination.
The radio is playing jazz, and I listen to the sound of the trumpet playing a solo until I become that sound.
When I make films, I'm very conscious about leaving space for an uncertainty, and for some unexpected things.
I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.
I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so.
Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.
It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.
All things come to pass When they do, if they do All things come to their end When they do, as they do. . . .
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.
So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.
And some by hours; Some measure days by dreams And some by flowers; My heart alone records My days and hours.
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.
The wheel begins its only if turning. / It had never stopped. / This is life's bargain that motion / Is hope.
We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same body.
Look, I want to love this world as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get to be alive and know it.
You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.
There’s plenty that poetry cannot do. But the miracle, of course, is how much it can do, how much it does do.
Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.