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You will never live to my age without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness.
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.
There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares.
Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now.
Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray.
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.
I have remained resentful to this day When any but myself presumed to say That there was anything I couldn't be.
Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.
The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.
Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room before you save the world. Then save the world.
Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.
Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure.
God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.
Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.
Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive.
I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.
What strange beings we are! That sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we're afraid of our own immortality.
I feel like the earth, astonished at fragrance borne in the air, made pregnant with mystery from a drop of rain.
To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.
Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.
I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you
Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's.
There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.
If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.
Neither the wrath of Heaven nor the attacks of enemies are as fatal as Pleasure alone when she infects the mind.
When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
We all have spiritual DNA; wisdom and truth are part of our genetic structure even if we don't always access it.
That is salvation. To give of love inside. To keep love of life, no matter what, and give to others. Generously.
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.
To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence.
Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.
These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.
The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them
Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.
She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.
For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.
Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.
Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.
I have no question: It is enough, I know what fixed the station Of star and cloud. And knowing all, I cry. . . .
I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay