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Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
I have always been comfortable weathering the storm. I’d like to get more comfortable weathering the sunny day.
Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.
Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.
Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf.
I truly hate marketing promotions, and I don't at all approve of encouraging wannabe poets to write bad poetry.
If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!
Who says there's just one safe way to walk, one road properly lit, and the rest - all slippery water, unmarked?
Sometimes Allah withholds something from you, not because you don't deserve it, but because you deserve better!
The Obama campaign decimated the newly regenerated anti-war movement in 2008. And he definitely isn't anti-war.
Rarely, someone comes around that is influenced by so many things but is looking for a new way to do something.
The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.
Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.
Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out.
It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.
The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
Some people have everything Other people don't But everything don't mean a thing If it ain't the thing you want
Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world. Morning arrives and that's it. Sunlight darkens the earth.
Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.
O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.
We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.
You know the best thing about having a house? You get to plant whatever you want in the yard and watch it grow.
I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.
Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.
We have the words in our pockets, obscure directions. The old ones have taken away the light of their presence.
If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.
When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe.
[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.
Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.
Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on His Birthday
when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.
The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun!
The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.
O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.
Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.
The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.
Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.
Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.
install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.
Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.
America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.
O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it, That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute?
How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.
If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.