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I did not pray Him to lay bare The mystery to me, Enough the rose was Heaven to smell, And His own face to see.
Many poets write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.
Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?
To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.
When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.
You’re falling now. You’re swimming. This is not harmless. You are not breathing.
Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up.
"With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart" once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he!
She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine.
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love's the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!
As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.
I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read.
I think it's true to say that in 1973 I could read every book of poems that was published in a year, and I did.
To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.
If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.
If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.
When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious.
One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.
Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that’s a blessing.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.
Show me anger and I will show you 'Hurt'. Show me hurt and I will show you 'Love'. Peel the layers if you care!
At every moment, Love's voice talks to us from left and from right. All we have to do is to know how to listen.
No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.
My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit.
A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another
Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.
What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive.
I never really cared for the things of this world. It was the glow of Your Presence that filled it with beauty.
The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.
Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before.
He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous
Because I'm an American, I know there's all sorts of international folks who would gladly kidnap and behead me.
And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken.
Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.
But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.
I'm sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I'm still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds.
I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.
To guard and to deal with others' goods as one's own is considered as the mark of proper trade among merchants.
That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.
Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.
It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look - like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.