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Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses.
If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.
I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too.
Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.
Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!
Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.
If you see anything, always deny that you've seen; or if perchance something pains you, deny that you're hurt.
I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.
Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what.
Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.
The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep # trust .
The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.
In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.
I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars.
What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.
There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?
Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.
In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.
Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.
The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.
I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.
Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.
Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!
Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.
If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment.
In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance.
The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit. Look through that astrolabe and become oceanic.
From myself I am copper, through you, friend, I am gold. From myself I’m a stone, but through you, I am a gem!
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?
We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.
Much contention and strife will arise in that house where the wife shall get up dissatisfied with her husband.
The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.
If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world.
Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.
You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.
The God of religion exists only in our minds. The real God exists but we can never comprehend him in our minds
Every morning I wake up with the news of bloodshed. I feel my body, desperate to know whether I'm still alive.
If every decision would reflect our feelings as well as our reason, the world would be a better place to live.
To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate.
The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.